American Mineralogist
LETTER
370
A simple inorganic process for formation of carbonates, magnetite, and sulfides in Martian meteorite ALH84001
D.C. Golden, Douglas W. Ming, Craig S. Schwandt, Howard V. Lauer Jr., Richard A. Socki, Richard V. Morris, Gary E. Lofgren, and Gordon A. McKay
REGULAR ARTICLE
205
Partitioning of Sr between coexisting minerals of the hollandite- and piemontite-groups in a quartz-rich schist from the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, Japan
Masaki Enami and Yasuyuki Banno
215
Crystallization processes in migmatites
Alfons Berger and Gregory Roselle
225
Amblygonite-montebrasite solid solutions as monitors of fluorine in evolved granitic and pegmatitic melts
David London, George B. Morgan VI, and Michael B. Wolf
234
Reduction of water loss from gold-palladium capsules during piston-cylinder experiments by use of pyrophyllite powder
C. Freda, D.R. Baker, and L. Ottolini
238
Trace-element partitioning between immiscible lunar melts: An example from naturally occurring lunar melt inclusions
C.K. Shearer, J.J. Papike, and M.N. Spilde
247
Assemblages with titanite (CaTiOSiO4), Ca-Mg-Fe olivine and pyroxenes, Fe-Mg-Ti oxides, and quartz: Part I. Theory
Dimitrios Xirouchakis, Donald H. Lindsley, and David J. Andersen
254
Assemblages with titanite (CaTiOSiO4), Ca-Mg-Fe olivine and pyroxenes, Fe-Mg-Ti oxides, and quartz: Part II. Application
Dimitrios Xirouchakis, Donald H. Lindsley, and B. Ronald Frost
265
The stability of clinopyroxene in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2-TiO2 (CMST)
Birgit Sepp and Thomas Kunzmann
271
Ordering kinetics of Mg-Fe2+ exchange in a Wo43En46Fs11 augite
Elisabetta Brizi, Gianmario Molin, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Marcello Merli
279
Al,Si order in the crystal structure of α-eucryptite (LiAlSiO4)
Peter Daniels and Colin A. Fyfe
284
TEM-EDX study of weathered layers on the surface of volcanic glass, bytownite, and hypersthene in volcanic ash from Sakurajima volcano, Japan
Motoharu Kawano and Katsutoshi Tomita
293
Electron microscopic study of the dehydration of diaspore
Lars L??ffler and Werner Mader
304
Crystal properties and energetics of synthetic kaolinite
Claire-Isabelle Fialips, Alexandra Navrotsky, and Sabine Petit
312
Structures and energies of AlOOH and FeOOH polymorphs from plane wave pseudopotential calculations
Kevin M. Rosso and James R. Rustad
318
XPS measurement of fivefold and sixfold coordinated sulfur in pyrrhotites and evidence for millerite and pyrrhotite surface species
H.W. Nesbitt, A.G. Schaufuss, M. Scaini, G.M. Bancroft, and R. Szargan
327
Structure of synthetic 6-line ferrihydrite by electron nanodiffraction
Dawn E. Janney, J.M. Cowley, and Peter R. Buseck
336
Atomic structures of planar defects in oxybiotite
Toshihiro Kogure and Massimo Nespolo
341
Potassium hydrogen disilicate: A possible model compound for 17O NMR spectra of hydrous silicate glasses
Jane V. Oglesby, Scott Kroeker, and Jonathan F. Stebbins
348
Strain analysis of phase transitions in (Ca,Sr)TiO3 perovskites
Michael A. Carpenter, Ana I. Becerro, and Friedrich Seifert
364
Triclinic liddicoatite and elbaite in growth sectors of tourmaline from Madagascar
Mizuhiko Akizuki, Takahiro Kuribayashi, Toshiro Nagase, and Arashi Kitakaze
NEW MINERAL NAMES
376
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, Vladimir A. Kovalenker and Andrew C. Roberts
MEMORIAL
382
MEMORIAL: Memorial for Julian Royce Goldsmith, 1918 – 1999
Edward J. Olsen
BOOK REVIEW
380
BOOK REVIEW: Cave Minerals Of The World, 2nd Edition. By Carol Hill and Paolo Forti.
William B. White
ERRATA
384
ERRATUM: Multiple pyroxene and amphibole assemblages in the amphibolite facies: Bulk compositional controls
Wolf-Achim Kahl and John C. Schumacher
384
ERRATUM: The crystal structure of thornasite, NA12Th3[Si8O19]4(H2O)18: A novel interrupted siliicate framework
Yaping Li, Servey B. Krivovichev, and Peter C. Burns
DEPOSIT ITEMS
271
Ordering kinetics of Mg-Fe2+ exchange in a Wo43En46Fs11 augite
Elisabetta Brizi, Gianmario Molin, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Marcello Merli
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