American Mineralogist
LETTER
745
Growth zoning and strain patterns inside diamond crystals as revealed by Raman maps
Lutz Nasdala, Wolfgang Hofmeister, Jeffrey W. Harris, and Jürgen Glinnemann
749
Differentiation of commercial vermiculite based on statistical analysis of bulk chemical data: Fingerprinting vermiculite from Libby, Montana U.S.A.
Mickey E. Gunter, Eron Singleton, Bryan R. Bandli, Heather A. Lowers, and Gregory P. Meeker
755
Crystal structure of single-crystal CaGeO3 tetragonal garnet synthesized at 3 GPa and 1000 °C
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Hiroki Chaya, and Akira Yoshiasa
758
Iron isotope exchange kinetics at the nanoparticulate ferrihydrite surface
Rebecca L. Poulson, Clark M. Johnson, and Brian L. Beard
764
Cation distribution in MgFe2O4 vs. pressure and temperature: Experiments in a piston-cylinder apparatus
Alexander I. Turkin and Valeri A. Drebushchak
MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY
526
Analytical perils (and progress) in electron microprobe trace element analysis applied to geochronology: Background acquisition, interferences, and beam irradiation effects
Michael J. Jercinovic and Michael L. Williams
547
Contributions to precision and accuracy of monazite microprobe ages
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, David A. Wark, Christopher G. Daniel, and Lara C. Storm
578
Electron-microprobe age mapping of monazite
Philippe Goncalves, Michael L. Williams, and Michael J. Jercinovic
586
Isotopic age constraints from electron microprobe U-Th-Pb dates, using a three-dimensional concordia diagram
Yvette D. Kuiper
592
Monazite ages in the Chesham Pond Nappe, SW New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Implications for assembly of central New England thrust sheets
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, John T. Cheney, and Graham Layne
607
Electron-microprobe dating as a tool for determining the closure of Th-U-Pb systems in migmatitic monazites
Alain Cocherie, Eugène be Mezeme, Olivier Legendre, C. Mark Fanning, Michel Faure, and Philippe Rossi
619
Comparative isotopic and chemical geochronometry of monazite, with implications for U-Th-Pb dating by electron microprobe: An example from metamorphic rocks of the eastern Wyoming craton (U.S.A.)
Peter S. Dahl, Michael A. Hamilton, Michael J. Jercinovic, Michael P. Terry, Michael L. Williams, and Robert Frei
REGULAR ARTICLE
525
Preface to collected papers on monazite microprobe geochronology
Michael L. Williams and Robert J. Tracy
639
Re-examination of the hydrogarnet structure at high pressure using neutron powder diffraction and infrared spectroscopy
George A. Lager, William G. Marshall, Zhenxian Liu, and Robert T. Downs
645
Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution of zeolite levyne
Giacomo Diego Gatta, Paola Comodi, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
653
Crystal chemistry of the hydrothermally synthesized Na2(Mn1-xFe2+x)2Fe3+(PO4)3 alluaudite-type solid solution
Frédéric Hatert, Leila Rebbouh, Raphaël P. Hermann, André-Mathieu Fransolet, Gary J. Long, and Fernande Grandjean
663
Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca3Cr2Si3O12)
S. Klemme, J.C. van Miltenburg, P. Javorsky, and F. Wastin
667
Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO3 at 40 GPa
Shigeaki Ono, Takumi Kikegawa, Yasuo Ohishi, and Jun Tsuchiya
672
Direct formation of the γ-CaSO4 phase in dehydration process of gypsum: In situ FTIR study
P.S.R. Prasad, V. Krishna Chaitanya, K. Shiva Prasad, and D. Narayana Rao
679
The order-disorder character of FeOHSO4 obtained from the thermal decomposition of metahohmannite, Fe3+2(H2O)4[O(SO4)2]
Gennaro Ventruti, Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, and Carlo Meneghini
687
Temperature and composition dependence of structural phase transitions in Ca(TixZr1-x)OGeO4
Rikke Ellemann-Olesen and Thomas Malcherek
695
Low-T neutron powder-diffraction and synchrotron-radiation IR study of synthetic amphibole Na(NaMg)Mg5Si8O22(OH)2
G. Iezzi, G.D. Gatta, W. Kockelmann, G. Della Ventura, R. Rinaldi, W. Schäfer, M. Piccinini, and F. Gaillard
701
Charge contrast imaging of fine-scale microstructure and compositional variation in garnet using the environmental scanning electron microscope
Simon J. Cuthbert and James O. Buckman
708
Piston-cylinder experiments on H2O undersaturated Fe-bearing systems: An experimental setup approaching
Ralf Kägi, Othmar Müntener, Peter Ulmer, and Luisa Ottolini
718
Environmentally important, poorly crystalline Fe/Mn hydrous oxides: Ferrihydrite and a possibly new vernadite-like mineral from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex
Michael F. Hochella, Jr., Takeshi Kasama, Andrew Putnis, Christine V. Putnis, and Johnnie N. Moore
725
The true structure of wonesite, an interlayerdeficient trioctahedral sodium mica
Toshihiro Kogure, Ritsuro Miyawaki, and Yasuyuki Banno
732
Clinoholmquistite discredited: The new amphibole end-member fluoro-sodic-pedrizite
Roberta Oberti, Fernando Cámara, and Luisa Ottolini
737
XRMapAnal: A program for analysis of quantitative X-ray maps
Douglas K. Tinkham and Edward D. Ghent
NEW MINERAL NAMES
768
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen, T. Scott Ercit, And Andrew C. Roberts
BOOK REVIEW
774
BOOK REVIEW: DEER, HOWIE AND ZUSSMAN ROCK-FORMING MINERALS, SHEET SILICATES: MICAS, volume 3A, 2nd edition. By M.E. Fleet, The Geological Society, London, 2003, 758 pp.
Stephen Guggenheim
ERRATA
776
ERRATUM: The Mn, Mg-intracrystalline exchange reaction in donpeacorite (Mn0.54Ca0.03Mg1.43Si2O6) and its relation to the fractionation behavior of Mn in Fe, Mg-orthopyroxene by Marilena Stimpfl (2005, vol. 90, p. 155-161, DOI: 10.2138/am.2005.444)
DEPOSIT ITEMS
645
Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution of zeolite levyne
Giacomo Diego Gatta, Paola Comodi, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
Table 4A and 4B. Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution
AM-05-011.zip zipped
732
Clinoholmquistite discredited: The new amphibole end-member fluoro-sodic-pedrizite
Roberta Oberti, Fernando Cámara, and Luisa Ottolini
755
Crystal structure of single-crystal CaGeO3 tetragonal garnet synthesized at 3 GPa and 1000 °C
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Hiroki Chaya, and Akira Yoshiasa
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