American Mineralogist
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1531
Novel 2:1 structure of phyllosilicates formed by annealing Fe3+, Mg-rich dioctahedral mica
Toshihiro Kogure, Jun Kameda, and Victor A. Drits
1535
Experimental study of radium partitioning between anorthite and melt at 1 atm
Sarah A. Miller, Donald S. Burnett, Paul D. Asimow, Douglas L. Phinney, and Ian D. Hutcheon
REGULAR ARTICLE
1253
Occurrence and origin of minerals in a chamosite-bearing coal of Late Permian age, Zhaotong, Yunnan, China
Shifeng Dai and Chen-Lin Chou
1262
Crystal-chemical and carbon-isotopic characteristics of karpatite (C24H12) from the Picacho Peak Area, San Benito County, California: Evidences for the hydrothermal formation
Takuya Echigo, Mitsuyoshi Kimata, and Teruyuki Maruoka
1270
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of high-pressure phases of KHCO3
K. Komatsu, H. Kagi, T. Nagai, T. Kuribayashi, J.B. Parise, and Y. Kudoh
1276
Stress-induced redistribution of yttrium and heavy rare-earth elements (HREE) in garnet during high-grade polymetamorphism
T.S. R??hr, H. Austrheim, and M. Erambert
1288
The role of volatile transport by diffusion and dispersion in driving biotite-forming reactions during regional metamorphism of the Gile Mountain Formation, Vermont
John M. Ferry
1316
Al,Si order in albite and its effect on albite dissolution processes: A Monte Carlo study
Li Zhang and Andreas Lüttge
1325
Structural state of microcrystalline opals: A Raman spectroscopic study
Albena Ilieva, Boriana Mihailova, Zdravko Tsintsov, and Ognyan Petrov
1334
A Monte Carlo investigation of the thermodynamics of cation ordering in 2-3 spinels
Erika J. Palin and Richard J. Harrison
1346
Modeling the plastic deformation of olivine by dislocation dynamics simulations
Julien Durinck, Benoit Devincre, Ladislas Kubin, and Patrick Cordier
1358
Heat capacity of hydration in zeolites
Philip S. Neuhoff and Jie Wang
1368
Imaging of dioctahedral 2:1 layers by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM): Possibility of recording the dehydroxylate
Toshihiro Kogure
1374
Geochemical variations in late-stage growth of volcanic phenocrysts revealed by SIMS depth-profiling
Kimberly Genareau, Richard Hervig, and Amanda Clarke
1383
Characterization of mineral surfaces using FIB and TEM: A case study of naturally weathered alkali feldspars
Martin R. Lee, David J. Brown, Caroline L. Smith, Mark E. Hodson, Maureen MacKenzie, and Roland Hellmann
1395
Crystal structure and chemical composition of Li-, Fe-, and Mn-rich micas
Maria Franca Brigatti, Annibale Mottana, Daniele Malferrari, and Giannantonio Cibin
1401
Microbial effects in promoting the smectite to illite reaction: Role of organic matter intercalated in the interlayer
Gengxin Zhang, Jinwook Kim, Hailiang Dong, and Andre J. Sommer
1411
Microbial reduction of structural Fe3+ in nontronite by a thermophilic bacterium and its role in promoting the smectite to illite reaction
Gengxin Zhang, Hailiang Dong, Jinwook Kim, and D.D. Eberl
1420
Unique properties of lunar impact glass: Nanophase metallic Fe synthesis
Yang Liu, Lawrence A. Taylor, James R. Thompson, Darren W. Schnare, and Jae-sung Park
1428
Aluminotaramite, alumino-magnesiotaramite, and fluoro-alumino-magnesiotaramite: Mineral data and crystal chemistry
Roberta Oberti, Massimo Boiocchi, David C. Smith, and Olaf Medenbach
1436
Pressure-induced slip-system transition in forsterite: Single-crystal rheological properties at mantle pressure and temperature
Paul Raterron, Jiuhua Chen, Li Li, Donald Weidner, and Patrick Cordier
1446
Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of nepheline: Implications for the nature of the modulated superstructure
G. Diego Gatta and Ross J. Angel
1456
Pressure-induced change in the compressional behavior of the O-H bond in chrysotile: A Raman high-pressure study up to 4.5 GPa
Tomoyuki Mizukami, Hiroyuki Kagi, Simon R. Wallis, and Satoshi Fukura
1464
Jarosite–hydronium jarosite solid-solution series with full iron site occupancy: Mineralogy and crystal chemistry
Laurel C. Basciano and Ronald C. Peterson
1474
Hydrogen bonded silanols in the 10 â„« phase: Evidence from NMR spectroscopy
Brian L. Phillips, Harris E. Mason, and Stephen Guggenheim
1486
M??ssbauer spectroscopy of Zn-poor and Zn-rich rhodonite
Dana T. Griffen and Wendy R. Nelson
1492
The crystal structure of pyroxenes along the jadeite–hedenbergite and jadeite–aegirine joins
F. Nestola, M. Tribaudino, T. Boffa Ballaran, C. Liebske, and M. Bruno
1502
Temperature dependence of IR absorption of hydrous/hydroxyl species in minerals and synthetic materials
Ming Zhang, Ekhard K.H. Salje, Michael A. Carpenter, Ji Yang Wang, Lee A. Groat, George A. Lager, Ling Wang, Anton Beran, and Ulrich Bismayer
1518
The crystal structure of meurigite
Anthony R. Kampf, Joseph J. Pluth, and Yu-Sheng Chen
1525
Yakovenchukit-(Y), K3NaCaY2(Si12O30)(H2O)4, a new mineral from the Khibiny massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia: A novel type of octahedral- tetrahedral open-framework structure
Sergey V. Krivovichev, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Julia A. Mikhailova, Yuri P. Men’shikov, Thomas Armbruster, Ekaterina A. Selivanova, and Nicolas Meisser
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1539
NEW MINERAL NAMES
T. Scott Ercit, Paula C. Piilonen, And Ralph Rowe
BOOK REVIEW
1543
BOOK REVIEW: GENESIS: THE SCIENTIFIC QUEST FOR LIFE’S ORIGINS by Robert M. Hazen. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C., 2005. 339 pages
David C. Catling
ERRATA
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ERRATUM: Book Review on Volcanism in the Campania Plain: Vesusvius Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites, edited by B. De Vivo. Reviewed by Kenneth H. Wohletz. (vol. 92, p. 985-986, 2007; erratum DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.501).
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Crystal structure and chemical composition of Li-, Fe-, and Mn-rich micas
Maria Franca Brigatti, Annibale Mottana, Daniele Malferrari, and Giannantonio Cibin
Item#: AM-07-027
Table 3. Crystallographic coordinates and equivalent isotropic and anisotropic temperature factors, Table 5. Refined and calculated site occupancy for octahedral sites and Table 5. Refined and calculated site occupancy for octahedral sites.
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Table 3. Crystallographic coordinates and equivalent isotropic and anisotropic temperature factors, Table 5. Refined and calculated site occupancy for octahedral sites and Table 5. Refined and calculated site occupancy for octahedral sites.
AM-07-027.zip zipped
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Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of nepheline: Implications for the nature of the modulated superstructure
G. Diego Gatta and Ross J. Angel
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