American Mineralogist
LETTER
1410
In situ monitoring of lepidocrocite bioreduction and magnetite formation by reflection M??ssbauer spectroscopy
Asfaw Zegeye, Mustapha Abdelmoula, Muhammad Usman, Khalil Hanna, and Christian Ruby
1414
Differences in Fe-redox for asbestiform and nonasbestiform amphiboles from the former vermiculite mine, near Libby, Montana, U.S.A.
Mickey E. Gunter, M. Darby Dyar, Antonio Lanzirotti, Jonathan M. Tucker, and Elly A. Speicher
1418
Direct determination of europium valence state by XANES in extraterrestrial merrillite: Implications for REE crystal chemistry and martian magmatism
C.K. Shearer, J.J. Papike, P.V. Burger, S.R. Sutton, F.M. McCubbin, and M. Newville
REGULAR ARTICLE
1199
Brearleyite, Ca12Al14O32Cl2, a new alteration mineral from the NWA 1934 meteorite
Chi Ma, Harold C. Connolly Jr., John R. Beckett, Oliver Tschauner, George R. Rossman, Anthony R. Kampf, Thomas J. Zega, Stuart A. Sweeney Smith, and Devin L. Schrader
1207
The 3.65 Ã… phase in the system MgO-SiO2-H2O: Synthesis, composition, and structure
Bernd Wunder, Richard Wirth, and Monika Koch-Müller
1215
Water in upper mantle pyroxene megacrysts and xenocrysts: A survey study
Rickard Sundvall and Roland Stalder
1238
Radiation effects on cathodoluminescence of albite
Masahiro Kayama, Hirotsugu Nishido, Shin Toyoda, Kosei Komuro, and Kiyotaka Ninagawa
1248
Structure refinement of high-pressure hexagonal aluminous phases K1.00Mg2.00Al4.80Si1.15O12 and Na1.04Mg1.88Al4.64Si1.32O12
Hiroshi Kojitani, Takemi Iwabuchi, Makoto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miura, and Masaki Akaogi
1254
Elastic softening of metamict titanite CaTiSiO5: Radiation damage and annealing
Ekhard K.H. Salje, Douglas J. Safarik, Jason C. Lashley, Lee A. Groat, and Ulli Bismayer
1262
An experimental study of the diffusion of C and O in calcite in mixed CO2-H2O fluid
T.C. Labotka, D.R. Cole, M.J. Fayek, and T. Chacko
1270
Hydrochemical performance and mineralogical evolution of a dispersed alkaline substrate (DAS) remediating the highly polluted acid mine drainage in the full-scale passive treatment of Mina Esperanza (SW Spain)
Manuel A. Caraballo, Francisco Mac‹as, JosŽ Miguel Nieto, Julio Castillo, Dino Quispe, and Carlos Ayora
1278
The effect of fO2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content
K. Righter, S. Sutton, L. Danielson, K. Pando, G. Schmidt, H. Yang, S. Berthet, M. Newville, Y. Choi, R.T. Downs, and V. Malavergne
1291
An experimental study of OH solubility in rutile at 500–900 °C, 0.5–2 GPa, and a range of oxygen fugacities
Clinton V. Colasanti, Elizabeth A. Johnson, and Craig E. Manning
1300
The growth interval of garnet in the UHP eclogites from the Dabie orogen, China
Hao Cheng, Jeffrey D. Vervoort, Xianhua Li, Chao Zhang, Qiuli Li, and Shu Zheng
1308
Structural studies of NH4-exchanged natrolites at ambient conditions and high temperature
Yongmoon Lee, Donghoon Seoung, Young-Nam Jang, Jianming Bai, and Yongjae Lee
1316
Morphology and microstructure of magnetite and ilmenite inclusions in plagioclase from Adirondack anorthositic gneiss
Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Kai Chen, and Rebecca Smith
1325
Thermodynamic properties of stishovite by low-temperature heat capacity measurements and the coesite-stishovite transition boundary
M. Akaogi, M. Oohata, H. Kojitani, and H. Kawaji
1331
Mechanisms of Cr and H incorporation in stishovite determined by single-crystal EPR spectroscopy and DFT calculations
Yuanming Pan, Rudolf I Mashkovtsev, Dan Huang, Mao Mao, and Anton Shatskiy
1343
Paramagnetic interactions in the 31P NMR spectroscopy of rare earth element orthophosphate (REPO4, monazite/xenotime) solid solutions
Aaron C. Palke and Jonathan F. Stebbins
1354
Garnet sector and oscillatory zoning linked with changes in crystal morphology during rapid growth, North Cascades, Washington
Harold Stowell, Carlos Zuluaga, Alan Boyle, and Gerrit Bulman
1363
Phase stability, elastic behavior, and pressure-induced structural evolution of kalsilite: A ceramic material and high-T/high-P mineral
G. Diego Gatta, Ross J. Angel, Jing Zhao, Matteo Alvaro, Nicola Rotiroti, and Michael A. Carpenter
1373
A new type of high-pressure low-flow metering valve for continuous decompression: First experimental results on degassing of rhyodacitic melts
Marcus Nowak, Sarah B. Cichy, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Norbert Walker, and Willi Hurkuck
1381
Substitution mechanisms and implications for the estimate of water fugacity for Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture, Potenza, Italy
M. Lacalamita, E. Schingaro, F. Scordari, G. Ventruti, A. Fabbrizio, and G. Pedrazzi
1392
Calibration for IR measurements of OH in apatite
Karen L. Wang, Youxue Zhang, and Fabian U. Naab
1398
Electrolytic coloration and spectral properties of natural calcite crystals
Hongen Gu, Rui Zhu, Weiwei Chen, Dongliang Ma, Yang Li, and Yutong Li
AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
1402
Compositional dependent compressibility of dissolved water in silicate glasses
Wim J. Malfait, Carmen Sanchez-Valle, Paola Ardia, Etienne Médard, and Philippe Lerch
BOOK REVIEW
1422
BOOK REVIEW, DIFFUSION IN MINERALS AND MELTS, Youxue Zhang and Daniele J. Cherniak, Editors. (2010) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 72, 1038 pages
Frank J. Spera
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1199
Brearleyite, Ca12Al14O32Cl2, a new alteration mineral from the NWA 1934 meteorite
Chi Ma, Harold C. Connolly Jr., John R. Beckett, Oliver Tschauner, George R. Rossman, Anthony R. Kampf, Thomas J. Zega, Stuart A. Sweeney Smith, and Devin L. Schrader
1248
Structure refinement of high-pressure hexagonal aluminous phases K1.00Mg2.00Al4.80Si1.15O12 and Na1.04Mg1.88Al4.64Si1.32O12
Hiroshi Kojitani, Takemi Iwabuchi, Makoto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miura, and Masaki Akaogi
1270
Hydrochemical performance and mineralogical evolution of a dispersed alkaline substrate (DAS) remediating the highly polluted acid mine drainage in the full-scale passive treatment of Mina Esperanza (SW Spain)
Manuel A. Caraballo, Francisco Mac‹as, JosŽ Miguel Nieto, Julio Castillo, Dino Quispe, and Carlos Ayora
1278
The effect of fO2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content
K. Righter, S. Sutton, L. Danielson, K. Pando, G. Schmidt, H. Yang, S. Berthet, M. Newville, Y. Choi, R.T. Downs, and V. Malavergne
1308
Structural studies of NH4-exchanged natrolites at ambient conditions and high temperature
Yongmoon Lee, Donghoon Seoung, Young-Nam Jang, Jianming Bai, and Yongjae Lee
Crystallographic Information Files and Supplementary Tables and Figures
AM-11-047.zip zipped
1363
Phase stability, elastic behavior, and pressure-induced structural evolution of kalsilite: A ceramic material and high-T/high-P mineral
G. Diego Gatta, Ross J. Angel, Jing Zhao, Matteo Alvaro, Nicola Rotiroti, and Michael A. Carpenter
1381
Substitution mechanisms and implications for the estimate of water fugacity for Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture, Potenza, Italy
M. Lacalamita, E. Schingaro, F. Scordari, G. Ventruti, A. Fabbrizio, and G. Pedrazzi
Figures 2, 3, 5, Tables 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and Crystallographic Information Files
AM-11-046.zip zipped
1392
Calibration for IR measurements of OH in apatite
Karen L. Wang, Youxue Zhang, and Fabian U. Naab
1410
In situ monitoring of lepidocrocite bioreduction and magnetite formation by reflection M??ssbauer spectroscopy
Asfaw Zegeye, Mustapha Abdelmoula, Muhammad Usman, Khalil Hanna, and Christian Ruby
1418
Direct determination of europium valence state by XANES in extraterrestrial merrillite: Implications for REE crystal chemistry and martian magmatism
C.K. Shearer, J.J. Papike, P.V. Burger, S.R. Sutton, F.M. McCubbin, and M. Newville
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