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973
Crystal chemistry of hydration in aluminous orthopyroxene
Joseph R. Smyth, Katrin Mierdel, Hans Keppler, Falko Langenhorst, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Fabrizio Nestola
REGULAR ARTICLE
713
Single-crystal FTIR and X-ray study of vishnevite, ideally [Na6(SO4)][Na2(H2O)2](Si6Al6O24)
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Fabio Bellatreccia, Gian Carlo Parodi, Fernando Cámara, and Massimo Piccinini
722
Crystallographic texture and microstructure of terebratulide brachiopod shell calcite: An optimized materials design with hierarchical architecture
Erika Griesshaber, Wolfgang W. Schmahl, Rolf Neuser, Thomas Pettke, Michael Blüm, Jürg Mutterlose, and Uwe Brand
735
High-temperature phase relations and topological constraints in the quaternary system MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-Cr2O3: An experimental study
Cristiano Brigida, Stefano Poli, and Massimiliano Valle
748
Tilt and buckling modes, and acoustic anisotropy in layers with post-perovskite connectivity
Ian P. Swainson and André L. Yonkeu
753
Optical absorption study of natural garnets of almandine-skiagite composition showing intervalence Fe2+ + Fe3+ → Fe3+ + Fe2+ charge-transfer transition
Michail N. Taran, M. Darby Dyar, and Stanislav S. Matsyuk
761
Deriving formation constants for aqueous metal complexes from XANES spectra: Zn2+ and Fe2+ chloride complexes in hypersaline solutions
Weihua Liu, Barbara Etschmann, Garry Foran, Michael Shelley, and Joël Brugger
771
Birnessite polytype systematics and identification by powder X-ray diffraction
Victor A. Drits, Bruno Lanson, and Anne-Claire Gaillot
789
Improved measurement of fission-track annealing in apatite using c-axis projection
Richard A. Ketcham, Andrew Carter, Raymond A. Donelick, Jocelyn Barbarand, and Anthony J. Hurford
799
Improved modeling of fission-track annealing in apatite
Richard A. Ketcham, Andrew Carter, Raymond A. Donelick, Jocelyn Barbarand, and Anthony J. Hurford
811
Intercalibration of FTIR and SIMS for hydrogen measurements in glasses and nominally anhydrous minerals
Cyril Aubaud, Anthony C. Withers, Marc M. Hirschmann, Yunbin Guan, Laurie A. Leshin, Stephen J. Mackwell, and David R. Bell
829
Order and miscibility in the otavite–magnesite solid solution
F.A. Bromiley, T. Boffa Ballaran, F. Langenhorst, and F. Seifert
837
An infrared investigation of the otavite–magnesite solid solution
Fiona A. Bromiley, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Ming Zhang
844
Partitioning of calcium, magnesium, and transition metals between olivine and melt governed by the structure of the silicate melt at ambient pressure
Bjorn Mysen
863
The geometric effects of VFe2+ for VMg substitution on the crystal structures of the grandidierite-ominelite series
Tashia J. Dzikowski, Lee A. Groat, and Edward S. Grew
873
The iron oxidation state of garnet by electron microprobe: Its determination with the flank method combined with major-element analysis
Heidi E. Höfer and Gerhard P. Brey
886
Gram-Charlier development of the atomic displacement factors into mineral structures: The case of samsonite, Ag4MnSb2S6
Luca Bindi and Michel Evain
892
Superstructure of Challis mordenite with doubled monoclinic unit cell
Naoyuki Kawame, Daijo Ikuta, Hideki Kanazawa, Kazuhiko Ito, Mickey E. Gunter, Monte B. Boisen, and Osamu Tamada
898
Biopyribole evolution during tremolite synthesis from dolomite and quartz in CO2-H2O fluid
Krassimir N. Bozhilov, Daniel Brownstein, and David M. Jenkins
909
The evolution of diamond morphology in the process of dissolution: Experimental data
Alexander F. Khokhryakov and Yuri N. Pal’yanov
918
The pearceite-polybasite group of minerals: Crystal chemistry and new nomenclature rules
Luca Bindi, Michel Evain, Paul G. Spry, and Silvio Menchetti
926
Determination of layer stacking microstructures and intralayer transition of illite polytypes by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)
Tao Chen and Hejing Wang
933
Structural behavior of Al3+ in peralkaline, metaluminous, and peraluminous silicate melts and glasses at ambient pressure
Bjorn O. Mysen and Michael J. Toplis
947
The crystal structure of ingersonite, Ca3Mn2+Sb5+4O14, and its relationships with pyrochlore
Paola Bonazzi and Luca Bindi
954
Chemical composition, statistical analysis of the unit cell, and electrostatic modeling of the structure of Al-saturated chlorite from metamorphosed rocks
Sang Soo Lee, Stephen Guggenheim, M. Darby Dyar, and Charles V. Guidotti
966
XANES study of the oxidation state of Cr in lower mantle phases: Periclase and magnesium silicate perovskite
Sigrid Griet Eeckhout, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Catherine McCammon, Stephan Klemme, and Elodie Amiguet
979
Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Roebling Medal for 2006
W.G. Ernst
980
Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2006 to Daniel J. Frost
David Rubie
981
Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2006
Daniel J. Frost
983
Presentation of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2007 to Marie Huizing
John Rakovan
984
Acceptance of the Distinguished Public Service Medal for 2007
Marie Huizing
985
BOOK REVIEW: VOLCANISM IN THE CAMPANIA PLAIN: VESUVIUS, CAMPI FLEGREI AND IGNIMBRITES, Edited by B. De Vivo, Elsevier Developments in Volcanology 9, Amsterdam, 324 p. (2006) ISBN 0444521766
Kenneth H. Wohletz
987
American Mineralogist thanks the year 2006 reviewers
AWARD
977
Presentation of the Roebling Medal for 2006 of the Mineralogical Society of America to W. Gary Ernst
Peter J. Wyllie
ERRATA
988
ERRATUM: Armbrusterite, K5Na6Mn3+Mn2+14[Si9O22]4(OH)10·4H2O, a new Mn hydrous heterophyllosilicate from the Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia by Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, and Ekaterina A. Selivanova (vol. 92, p. 416-423, 2007; erratum DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.496)
DEPOSIT ITEMS
713
Single-crystal FTIR and X-ray study of vishnevite, ideally [Na6(SO4)][Na2(H2O)2](Si6Al6O24)
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Fabio Bellatreccia, Gian Carlo Parodi, Fernando Cámara, and Massimo Piccinini
789
Improved measurement of fission-track annealing in apatite using c-axis projection
Richard A. Ketcham, Andrew Carter, Raymond A. Donelick, Jocelyn Barbarand, and Anthony J. Hurford
863
The geometric effects of VFe2+ for VMg substitution on the crystal structures of the grandidierite-ominelite series
Tashia J. Dzikowski, Lee A. Groat, and Edward S. Grew
Item#: AM-07-021
Table 4 Observed and calculated structure factors, Table 6 Displacement parameters, Table 8 Polyhedral edges and Table 9 Distortion parameters
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Table 4 Observed and calculated structure factors, Table 6 Displacement parameters, Table 8 Polyhedral edges and Table 9 Distortion parameters
AM-07-021.zip zipped
947
The crystal structure of ingersonite, Ca3Mn2+Sb5+4O14, and its relationships with pyrochlore
Paola Bonazzi and Luca Bindi
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