American Mineralogist
Open AccessHIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
341
Titan mineralogy: A window on organic mineral evolution
Robert M. Hazen
OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
343
Prospects for mineralogy on Titan
Helen E. Maynard-Casely, Morgan L. Cable, Michael J. Malaska, Tuan H. Vu, Mathieu Choukroun, and Robert Hodyss
SPECIAL COLLECTION: BIOMATERIALS–MINERALOGY MEETS MEDICINE
350
Biodegradabiliy of spherical mesoporous silica particles (MCM-41) in simulated body fluid (SBF)
Elena Boccardi, Anahì Philippart, Ana M. Beltrán, Jochen Schmidt, Liliana Liverani, Wolfgang Peukert, and Aldo R. Boccaccini
SPECIAL COLLECTION: RATES AND DEPTHS OF MAGMA ASCENT ON EARTH
355
Modeling of trace elemental zoning patterns in accessory minerals with emphasis on the origin of micrometer-scale oscillatory zoning in zircon
Oleg E. Melnik and Ilya N. Bindeman
NEW ADVANCES IN SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMA GENESIS
369
Experimental calibration and implications of olivine-melt vanadium oxybarometry for hydrous basaltic arc magmas
Tatiana A. Shishkina, Maxim V. Portnyagin, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Renat R. Almeev, Anna V. Simonyan, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Stephan Schuth, Martin Oeser, and Francois Holtz
SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
384
IR spectroscopy and OH– in silicate garnet: The long quest to document the hydrogarnet substitution
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman
REGULAR ARTICLE
412
Water diffusion in silica glass through pathways formed by hydroxyls
Minami Kuroda, Shogo Tachibana, Naoya Sakamoto, Satoshi Okumura, Michihiko Nakamura, and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
418
A new optical cell for in situ Raman spectroscopy, and its application to study sulfur-bearing fluids at elevated pressures and temperatures
Marcel Dietrich, Harald Behrens, and Max Wilke
430
Observations on three-dimensional measurement of confined fission track lengths in apatite using digital imagery
Qingyang Li, Andrew Gleadow, Christian Seiler, Barry Kohn, Pieter Vermeesch, Andrew Carter, and Anthony Hurford
441
Revision of the CaCO3–MgCO3 phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa
Anton Shatskiy, Ivan V. Podborodnikov, Anton V. Arefiev, Daniil A. Minin, Artem D. Chanyshev, and Konstantin D. Litasov
453
Redox-controlled dissolution of monazite in fluids and implications for phase stability in the lithosphere
Dustin Trail
462
Crystal structure of CaSiO3 perovskite at 28–62 GPa and 300 K under quasi-hydrostatic stress conditions
Huawei Chen, Sang-Heon Shim, Kurt Leinenweber, Vitali Prakapenka, Yue Meng, and Clemens Prescher
469
A common origin for Thai/Cambodian rubies and blue and violet sapphires from Yogo Gulch, Montana, U.S.A.?
Aaron C. Palke, Jacqueline Wong, Charles Verdel, and Janaína N. Ávila
480
Submicrometer yttrian zircon coating and arborescent aeschynite microcrystals on truncated bipyramidal anatase: An electron microscopy study of miarolitic cavities in the Cuasso al Monte granophyre (Varese, Italy)
Giancarlo Capitani, Enrico Mugnaioli, and Paolo Gentile
SPECIAL COLLECTION: EARTH ANALOGS FOR MARTIAN GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND PROCESSESTICLE
394
A mineralogical archive of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle preserved in the subsurface of the Río Tinto system
David C. Fernández-Remolar, Neil Banerjee, David Gómez-Ortiz, Matthew Izawa, and Ricardo Amils
DEPOSIT ITEMS
355
Modeling of trace elemental zoning patterns in accessory minerals with emphasis on the origin of micrometer-scale oscillatory zoning in zircon
Oleg E. Melnik and Ilya N. Bindeman
369
Experimental calibration and implications of olivine-melt vanadium oxybarometry for hydrous basaltic arc magmas
Tatiana A. Shishkina, Maxim V. Portnyagin, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Renat R. Almeev, Anna V. Simonyan, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Stephan Schuth, Martin Oeser, and Francois Holtz
394
A mineralogical archive of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle preserved in the subsurface of the Río Tinto system
David C. Fernández-Remolar, Neil Banerjee, David Gómez-Ortiz, Matthew Izawa, and Ricardo Amils
441
Revision of the CaCO3–MgCO3 phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa
Anton Shatskiy, Ivan V. Podborodnikov, Anton V. Arefiev, Daniil A. Minin, Artem D. Chanyshev, and Konstantin D. Litasov
453
Redox-controlled dissolution of monazite in fluids and implications for phase stability in the lithosphere
Dustin Trail
469
A common origin for Thai/Cambodian rubies and blue and violet sapphires from Yogo Gulch, Montana, U.S.A.?
Aaron C. Palke, Jacqueline Wong, Charles Verdel, and Janaína N. Ávila
480
Submicrometer yttrian zircon coating and arborescent aeschynite microcrystals on truncated bipyramidal anatase: An electron microscopy study of miarolitic cavities in the Cuasso al Monte granophyre (Varese, Italy)
Giancarlo Capitani, Enrico Mugnaioli, and Paolo Gentile
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