American Mineralogist
LETTERS
1171
Microporous gold: Comparison of textures from Nature and experiments
Victor M. Okrugin, Elena Andreeva, Barbara Etschmann, Allan Pring, Kan Li, Jing Zhao, Grant Griffiths, Gregory R. Lumpkin, Gerry Triani and Joël Brugger
1175
Valence state partitioning of V between pyroxene and melt for martian melt compositions Y 980459 and QUE 94201: The effect of pyroxene composition and crystal structure
James J. Papike, Paul V. Burger, Aaron S. Bell, Charles K. Shearer, Loan Le, John Jones and Paula Provencio
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
877
Absence of pressure-induced electron spin-state transition of iron in silicate glasses upon compression
Sung Keun Lee
879
Dolomite discloses a hidden history of subducting slabs
Stefano Poli
CROSSROADS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
881
Crystal structures of laihunite and intermediate phases between laihunite-1M and fayalite: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study
Huifang Xu, Zhizhang Shen, Hiromi Konishi, Pingqiu Fu and Izabela Szlufarska
MINERALS IN THE HUMAN BODY
890
A novel technique for fluorapatite synthesis and the thermodynamic mixing behavior of F-OH apatite crystalline solutions
Guy L. Hovis, Francis M. McCubbin, Hanna Nekvasil, Gokce Ustunisik, William R. Woerner and D.H. Lindsley
INVESTIGATING PETROLOGIC INDICATORS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES IN VOLCANIC ROCKS
898
The cooling kinetics of plagioclase feldspar as revealed by electron-microprobe mapping
Gianluca Iezzi, Silvio Mollo, Edisa Shahini, Andrea Cavallo and Piergiorgio Scarlato
SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
908
High-pressure behavior of thiospinel CuCr2S4
Matteo Alvaro, Fabrizio Nestola, Nancy Ross, M. Chiara Domeneghetti and Leonid Reznitsky
WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
914
Mšssbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data
M. Darby Dyar, Erica R. Jawin, Elly Breves, Gerard Marchand, Melissa Nelms, Melissa D. Lane, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish and Janice L. Bishop
943
A temperature-controlled sample stage for in situ micro-X-ray diffraction: Application to Mars analog mirabilite-bearing perennial cold spring precipitate mineralogy
Michael S. Bramble, Roberta L. Flemming, Jeffrey L. Hutter, Melissa M. Battler, Gordon R. Osinski and Neil R. Banerjee
948
Detection of iron substitution in natroalunite-natrojarosite solid solutions and potential implications for Mars
Thomas M. McCollom, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Alian Wang, Brian M. Hynek, Bruce Moskowitz and Thelma S. Berqu—
REGULAR ARTICLE
965
Harmunite CaFe2O4: A new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel
Irina O. Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Mikhail Murashko and Evgeny V. Galuskin
976
An assessment of the reliability of melt inclusions as recorders of the pre-eruptive volatile content of magmas
Rosario Esposito, Jerry Hunter, James D. Schiffbauer, Nobumichi Shimizu and Robert J. Bodnar
999
Beryllium mineral evolution
Edward S. Grew and Robert M. Hazen
1022
Incorporation of Y and REEs in aluminosilicate garnet: Energetics from atomistic simulation
William D. Carlson, Julian D. Gale and Kate Wright
1035
Role of silica for the progress of serpentinization reactions: Constraints from successive changes in mineralogical textures of serpentinites from Iwanaidake ultramafic body, Japan
Akane Miyoshi, Tetsu Kogiso, Naoto Ishikawa and Kenji Mibe
1045
Ophirite, Ca2Mg4[Zn2Mn23+(H2O)2(Fe3+W9O34)2]á46H2O, a new mineral with a heteropolytungstate tri-lacunary Keggin anionÊ
Anthony R. Kampf, John M. Hughes, Barbara P. Nash, Stephen E. Wright, George R. Rossman and Joe Marty
1052
Bubble formation during decompression of andesitic melts
Adrian Fiege, Franois Holtz and Sarah B. Cichy
1063
Manganese carbonate formation from amorphous and nanocrystalline precursors: Thermodynamics and geochemical relevance
A.V. Radha and Alexandra Navrotsky
1071
Insights into the crystal chemistry of Earth materials rendered by electron density distributions: Pauling’s rules revisited
G.V. Gibbs, Nancy L. Ross, David F. Cox and Kevin M. Rosso
1085
Adsorption of sulfur dioxide on volcanic ashes
Deborah Schmauss and Hans Keppler
1095
Sulfidation of native gold
Galina Palyanova, Nick Karmanov and Natalie Savva
1104
Electrical conductivity of synthetic mullite single crystals
Mohammed Malki, Jürgen Schreuer and Hartmut Schneider
1109
In situ Raman spectroscopy identification of the S3Ð ion in S-rich hydrothermal fluids from synthetic fluid inclusions
Nicolas Jacquemet, Damien Guillaume, Antoine Zwick and Gleb S. Pokrovski
1119
Melting phase equilibria of model carbonated peridotite from 8 to 12 GPa in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 and kimberlitic liquids in the Earth’s upper mantle
Shantanu Keshav and Gudmundur H. Gudfinnsson
1127
Effect of orientation on ion track formation in apatite and zircon
Weixing Li, Patrick Kluth, Daniel Schauries, Matias D. Rodriguez, Maik Lang, Fuxiang Zhang, Maxim Zdorovets, Christina Trautmann and Rodney C. Ewing
1133
Major, minor, and trace element composition of pyromorphite-group minerals as recorder of supergene weathering processes from the Schwarzwald mining district, SW Germany
Gregor Markl, Michael A.W. Marks, Johannes HolzŠpfel and Thomas Wenzel
1147
Toward an accurate ab initio estimation of compressibility and thermal expansion of diamond in the [0, 3000 K] temperature and [0, 30 GPa] pressures ranges, at the hybrid HF/DFT theoretical levelÊ
Mauro Prencipe, Marco Bruno, Fabrizio Nestola, Marco De La Pierre and Paolo Nimis
1155
Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite, NaV3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, Henrik Skogby and Ulf HŒlenius
1163
Gra_ianite, MnBi2S4, a new mineral from the B_i_a Bihor skarn, RomaniaÊÊÊ
Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Jo‘l Brugger, Nigel J. Cook, Stuart J. Mills, Peter Elliott, Gheorghe Damian and Floarea Damian
MSA AWARD PRESENTATIONS
1179
Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2013 to Wendy Li-Wen Mao
Gordon E. Brown Jr.
1180
Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2013
Wendy Mao
1181
Presentation of the 2013 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Frank C. Hawthorne
Norman M. Halden
1183
Acceptance of the 2013 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
Frank C. Hawthorne
1185
Presentation of the Distinguished Public Service Award for 2013 of the Mineralogical Society of America to Pierrette Tremblay
Rodney C. Ewing
1186
Acceptance of the Distinguished Public Service Award for 2013 of the Mineralogical Society of America
Pierrette Tremblay
1188
Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2014 to Patricia Dove
Alexandra Navrotsky
1189
Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2014
Patricia M. Dove
BOOK REVIEW
1190
APPLIED MINERALOGY OF CEMENT & CONCRETE
Robert D. Moser and Charles A. Weiss Jr.
DEPOSIT ITEMS
881
Crystal structures of laihunite and intermediate phases between laihunite-1M and fayalite: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study
Huifang Xu, Zhizhang Shen, Hiromi Konishi, Pingqiu Fu and Izabela Szlufarska
898
The cooling kinetics of plagioclase feldspar as revealed by electron-microprobe mapping
Gianluca Iezzi, Silvio Mollo, Edisa Shahini, Andrea Cavallo and Piergiorgio Scarlato
908
High-pressure behavior of thiospinel CuCr2S4
Matteo Alvaro, Fabrizio Nestola, Nancy Ross, M. Chiara Domeneghetti and Leonid Reznitsky
914
Mšssbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data
M. Darby Dyar, Erica R. Jawin, Elly Breves, Gerard Marchand, Melissa Nelms, Melissa D. Lane, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish and Janice L. Bishop
948
Detection of iron substitution in natroalunite-natrojarosite solid solutions and potential implications for Mars
Thomas M. McCollom, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Alian Wang, Brian M. Hynek, Bruce Moskowitz and Thelma S. Berqu—
965
Harmunite CaFe2O4: A new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel
Irina O. Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Mikhail Murashko and Evgeny V. Galuskin
976
An assessment of the reliability of melt inclusions as recorders of the pre-eruptive volatile content of magmas
Rosario Esposito, Jerry Hunter, James D. Schiffbauer, Nobumichi Shimizu and Robert J. Bodnar
1022
Incorporation of Y and REEs in aluminosilicate garnet: Energetics from atomistic simulation
William D. Carlson, Julian D. Gale and Kate Wright
1035
Role of silica for the progress of serpentinization reactions: Constraints from successive changes in mineralogical textures of serpentinites from Iwanaidake ultramafic body, Japan
Akane Miyoshi, Tetsu Kogiso, Naoto Ishikawa and Kenji Mibe
1045
Ophirite, Ca2Mg4[Zn2Mn23+(H2O)2(Fe3+W9O34)2]á46H2O, a new mineral with a heteropolytungstate tri-lacunary Keggin anionÊ
Anthony R. Kampf, John M. Hughes, Barbara P. Nash, Stephen E. Wright, George R. Rossman and Joe Marty
1052
Bubble formation during decompression of andesitic melts
Adrian Fiege, Franois Holtz and Sarah B. Cichy
1063
Manganese carbonate formation from amorphous and nanocrystalline precursors: Thermodynamics and geochemical relevance
A.V. Radha and Alexandra Navrotsky
1109
In situ Raman spectroscopy identification of the S3Ð ion in S-rich hydrothermal fluids from synthetic fluid inclusions
Nicolas Jacquemet, Damien Guillaume, Antoine Zwick and Gleb S. Pokrovski
1133
Major, minor, and trace element composition of pyromorphite-group minerals as recorder of supergene weathering processes from the Schwarzwald mining district, SW Germany
Gregor Markl, Michael A.W. Marks, Johannes HolzŠpfel and Thomas Wenzel
1147
Toward an accurate ab initio estimation of compressibility and thermal expansion of diamond in the [0, 3000 K] temperature and [0, 30 GPa] pressures ranges, at the hybrid HF/DFT theoretical levelÊ
Mauro Prencipe, Marco Bruno, Fabrizio Nestola, Marco De La Pierre and Paolo Nimis
1155
Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite, NaV3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, Henrik Skogby and Ulf HŒlenius
1163
Gra_ianite, MnBi2S4, a new mineral from the B_i_a Bihor skarn, RomaniaÊÊÊ
Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Jo‘l Brugger, Nigel J. Cook, Stuart J. Mills, Peter Elliott, Gheorghe Damian and Floarea Damian
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