American Mineralogist
LETTERS
1099
First-principles modeling of X-ray absorption spectra enlightens the processes of scandium sequestration by iron oxides
Mathieu Chassé, Marc Blanchard, Delphine Cabaret, Amélie Juhin, Delphine Vantelon, and Georges Calas
1104
Effects of the dissolution of thermal barrier coating materials on the viscosity of remelted volcanic ash
Dirk Müller, Kai-Uwe Hess, Ulrich Kueppers, and Donald B. Dingwell
SPECIAL COLLECTION: LITHIUM, BERYLLIUM AND BORON: QUINTESSENTIALLY CRUSTAL
977
Experimental determination of the solubility constant of kurnakovite, MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O
Yongliang Xiong
REGULAR ARTICLE
984
Elastic properties of majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds and the seismic signature of pyroxenites in the Earth’s upper mantle
Iuliia Koemets, Niccolò Satta, Hauke Marquardt, Ekaterina S. Kiseeva, Alexander Kurnosov, Thomas Stachel, Jeff W. Harris, and Leonid Dubrovinsky
992
Establishing a protocol for the selection of zircon inclusions in garnet for Raman thermobarometry
Nicola Campomenosi, Daniela Rubatto, Joerg Hermann, Boriana Mihailova, Marco Scambelluri, and Matteo Alvaro
1002
Reversely zoned plagioclase in lower crustal meta-anorthosites: An indicator of multistage fracturing and metamorphism in the lower crust
Yusuke Soda, Taku Matsuda, Sachio Kobayashi, Motoo Ito, Yumiko Harigane, and Takamoto Okudaira
1014
High-pressure silica phase transitions: Implications for deep mantle dynamics and silica crystallization in the protocore
Pratik Kr. Das, Chris E. Mohn, John P. Brodholt, and Reidar G. Trønnes
1021
The Cr-Zr-Ca armalcolite in lunar rocks is loveringite: Constraints from electron backscatter diffraction measurements
Ai-Cheng Zhang, Run-Lian Pang, Naoya Sakamoto, and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
1030
Effects of composition and pressure on electronic states of iron in bridgmanite
Susannah M. Dorfman, Vasily Potapkin, Mingda Lv, Eran Greenberg, Ilya Kupenko, Aleksandr I. Chumakov, Wenli Bi, E. Ercan Alp, Jiachao Liu, Arnaud Magrez, Siân E. Dutton, Robert J. Cava, Catherine A. McCammon, and Philippe Gillet
1040
Ti diffusion in feldspar
D.J. Cherniak and E.B. Watson
1051
Radiation-induced defects in montebrasite: An electron paramagnetic resonance study of O– hole and Ti3+ electron centers
José R. Toledo, Raphaela de Oliveira, Lorena N. Dias, Mário L.C. Chaves, Joachim Karfunkel, Ricardo Scholz, Maurício V.B. Pinheiro, and Klaus Krambrock
1060
New IR spectroscopic data for determination of water abundances in hydrous pantelleritic glasses
Paola Stabile, Ernestina Appiah, Marco Bello, Gabriele Giuli, Eleonora Paris, and Michael R. Carroll
1069
Experimental investigation of the effect of nickel on the electrical resistivity of Fe-Ni and Fe-Ni-S alloys under pressure
Anne Pommier
1078
An experimental approach to examine fluid-melt interaction and mineralization in rare-metal pegmatites
Alysha G. McNeil, Robert L. Linnen, Roberta L. Flemming, and Mostafa Fayek
1088
Crystal-chemistry of sulfates from the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). VI. Tl-bearing alum-(K) and voltaite from the Fornovolasco mining complex
Cristian Biagioni, Daniela Mauro, Marco Pasero, Elena Bonaccorsi, Giovanni Orazio Lepore, Federica Zaccarini, and Henrik Skogby
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1108
NEW MINERAL NAMES
DEPOSIT ITEMS
977
Experimental determination of the solubility constant of kurnakovite, MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O
Yongliang Xiong
984
Elastic properties of majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds and the seismic signature of pyroxenites in the Earth’s upper mantle
Iuliia Koemets, Niccolò Satta, Hauke Marquardt, Ekaterina S. Kiseeva, Alexander Kurnosov, Thomas Stachel, Jeff W. Harris, and Leonid Dubrovinsky
1002
Reversely zoned plagioclase in lower crustal meta-anorthosites: An indicator of multistage fracturing and metamorphism in the lower crust
Yusuke Soda, Taku Matsuda, Sachio Kobayashi, Motoo Ito, Yumiko Harigane, and Takamoto Okudaira
1014
High-pressure silica phase transitions: Implications for deep mantle dynamics and silica crystallization in the protocore
Pratik Kr. Das, Chris E. Mohn, John P. Brodholt, and Reidar G. Trønnes
1060
New IR spectroscopic data for determination of water abundances in hydrous pantelleritic glasses
Paola Stabile, Ernestina Appiah, Marco Bello, Gabriele Giuli, Eleonora Paris, and Michael R. Carroll
1069
Experimental investigation of the effect of nickel on the electrical resistivity of Fe-Ni and Fe-Ni-S alloys under pressure
Anne Pommier
1078
An experimental approach to examine fluid-melt interaction and mineralization in rare-metal pegmatites
Alysha G. McNeil, Robert L. Linnen, Roberta L. Flemming, and Mostafa Fayek
1088
Crystal-chemistry of sulfates from the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). VI. Tl-bearing alum-(K) and voltaite from the Fornovolasco mining complex
Cristian Biagioni, Daniela Mauro, Marco Pasero, Elena Bonaccorsi, Giovanni Orazio Lepore, Federica Zaccarini, and Henrik Skogby
1099
First-principles modeling of X-ray absorption spectra enlightens the processes of scandium sequestration by iron oxides
Mathieu Chassé, Marc Blanchard, Delphine Cabaret, Amélie Juhin, Delphine Vantelon, and Georges Calas
1104
Effects of the dissolution of thermal barrier coating materials on the viscosity of remelted volcanic ash
Dirk Müller, Kai-Uwe Hess, Ulrich Kueppers, and Donald B. Dingwell
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