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1341
Revisiting the importance of clay minerals in rock varnish
Ronald I. Dorn
Regular Article
1343
Formation and transformation of clay minerals in Marsanalog rock varnish
Qian Fang, Yan Li, Hongrui Ding, Liao Yang, Hanlie Hong, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Anbei Deng, Qile Geng, and Anhuai Lu
1361
Reconstructing volatile evolution in melts using zirconhosted apatite inclusions: Implications for the use of apatite as a fertility indicator
Qiang Li, Xiang Sun, Jun Deng, Yunzhao Ge, Xiaobo Si, Xu Zheng, and Pete Hollings
1382
Vesuvianite as a key tool for the reconstruction of skarn formation conditions: An example from the Sauce Chico Complex, Argentina
Carlos A. Ballivián Justiniano, Maricel G. Rodríguez, Taras L. Panikorovskii,
Manuela E. Benítez, Clemente Recio, Cinthia P. Ramos, Mabel E. Lanfranchini,
and Florencia Di Salvo
1399
Germanium oxidation state and substitution mechanism in Ge-rich sphalerite from MVT deposits: Constraints from X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and geometric optimization
Pan-Pan Niu, Shao-Yong Jiang, Manuel Muñoz, Clément Bonnet, Olivier Mathon, Marie-Christine Boiron, Hai-Zhen Wei, and Suo-Fei Xiong
1415
Enrichment mechanism of heavy rare earth elements in magmatic-hydrothermal titanite: Insights from SXAS/XPS experiments and first-principles calculations and implications for regolith-hosted HREE deposits
Yuzhou Feng, Huayong Chen, Huiyao Kuang, Rucao Li, Bing Xiao, Chao Wu, Hui Zheng, Renfei Feng, Mohsen Shakouri, and Yuanming Pan
1428
Thorite: An oddity in phase stability among the zirconstructured orthosilicates at high pressures
Andrew C. Strzelecki, Jason L. Baker, Stella Chariton, Xiaodong Zhao, Vitali Prakapenka, David Bollinger, Sohan Ahmed, Jeffrey Fortner, Stephanie Szenknect, Adel Mesbah, John S. McCloy, Choong-Shik Yoo, Rodney C. Ewing, Nicolas Dacheux, Hongwu Xu, and Xiaofeng Guo
1437
High P-T single-crystal elasticity of zircon by Brillouin spectroscopy
Arlacee Luu, Wen-Yi Zhou, Xin Zhong, Ming Hao, Przemyslaw Dera, and Jin S. Zhang
1446
Berndlehmannite: A new V-bearing sulfide mineral from the black-shale-hosted Zhongcun vanadium deposit, South China
Xuerui Fu, Guowu Li, Lingang Xu, Yuan Xue, Ningyue Sun, Jinhua Hao, Wei Jian, Hao Yan, Huishou Ye, Jianhua Ding, and Peng Yuan
1454
In situ Raman spectroscopic investigation on the phase transition of grunerite at high pressures
Zhi Zheng, Shaohao Zou, Chuanjun Wu, and Shenghua Mei
1462
Silicate liquid immiscibility in the Chang’e 5 lunar mare magmas: Constraints on the petrogenesis of lunar granitic rocks
Le Zhang, Ya-Nan Yang, Jintuan Wang, Ze-Xian Cui, Cheng-Yuan Wang, Peng-Li He, Yan-Qiang Zhang, Mang Lin, and Yi-Gang Xu
1472
The high-pressure, vacancy-stabilized component in clinopyroxenes
Ioannis Baziotis, Chi Ma, Stephan Klemme, Jasper Berndt, Oliver Tschauner, and Paul D. Asimow
1481
Lianbinite, (NH4)(C2H3O3)(C2H4O3), a new glycolate mineral from the Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Hexiong Yang, Xiangping Gu, Warren Lazar, Ronald B. Gibbs, and Robert T. Downs
1488
Mariakrite, [Ca4Al2l(OH)12(H2O)4][Fe2S4]: A new mineral and the first layered double hydroxide intercalated with dithioferrate (iron disulfide) chains
Mikhail N. Murashko, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Yulia S. Shelukhina, Igor V. Pekov, and Sergey N. Britvin
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1498
NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
1503
BOOK REVIEW
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1361
Reconstructing volatile evolution in melts using zirconhosted apatite inclusions: Implications for the use of apatite as a fertility indicator
Qiang Li, Xiang Sun, Jun Deng, Yunzhao Ge, Xiaobo Si, Xu Zheng, and Pete Hollings
1382
Vesuvianite as a key tool for the reconstruction of skarn formation conditions: An example from the Sauce Chico Complex, Argentina
Carlos A. Ballivián Justiniano, Maricel G. Rodríguez, Taras L. Panikorovskii,
Manuela E. Benítez, Clemente Recio, Cinthia P. Ramos, Mabel E. Lanfranchini,
and Florencia Di Salvo
1399
Germanium oxidation state and substitution mechanism in Ge-rich sphalerite from MVT deposits: Constraints from X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and geometric optimization
Pan-Pan Niu, Shao-Yong Jiang, Manuel Muñoz, Clément Bonnet, Olivier Mathon, Marie-Christine Boiron, Hai-Zhen Wei, and Suo-Fei Xiong
1415
Enrichment mechanism of heavy rare earth elements in magmatic-hydrothermal titanite: Insights from SXAS/XPS experiments and first-principles calculations and implications for regolith-hosted HREE deposits
Yuzhou Feng, Huayong Chen, Huiyao Kuang, Rucao Li, Bing Xiao, Chao Wu, Hui Zheng, Renfei Feng, Mohsen Shakouri, and Yuanming Pan
1428
Thorite: An oddity in phase stability among the zirconstructured orthosilicates at high pressures
Andrew C. Strzelecki, Jason L. Baker, Stella Chariton, Xiaodong Zhao, Vitali Prakapenka, David Bollinger, Sohan Ahmed, Jeffrey Fortner, Stephanie Szenknect, Adel Mesbah, John S. McCloy, Choong-Shik Yoo, Rodney C. Ewing, Nicolas Dacheux, Hongwu Xu, and Xiaofeng Guo
1437
High P-T single-crystal elasticity of zircon by Brillouin spectroscopy
Arlacee Luu, Wen-Yi Zhou, Xin Zhong, Ming Hao, Przemyslaw Dera, and Jin S. Zhang
1446
Berndlehmannite: A new V-bearing sulfide mineral from the black-shale-hosted Zhongcun vanadium deposit, South China
Xuerui Fu, Guowu Li, Lingang Xu, Yuan Xue, Ningyue Sun, Jinhua Hao, Wei Jian, Hao Yan, Huishou Ye, Jianhua Ding, and Peng Yuan
1462
Silicate liquid immiscibility in the Chang’e 5 lunar mare magmas: Constraints on the petrogenesis of lunar granitic rocks
Le Zhang, Ya-Nan Yang, Jintuan Wang, Ze-Xian Cui, Cheng-Yuan Wang, Peng-Li He, Yan-Qiang Zhang, Mang Lin, and Yi-Gang Xu
1472
The high-pressure, vacancy-stabilized component in clinopyroxenes
Ioannis Baziotis, Chi Ma, Stephan Klemme, Jasper Berndt, Oliver Tschauner, and Paul D. Asimow
1481
Lianbinite, (NH4)(C2H3O3)(C2H4O3), a new glycolate mineral from the Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Hexiong Yang, Xiangping Gu, Warren Lazar, Ronald B. Gibbs, and Robert T. Downs
1488
Mariakrite, [Ca4Al2l(OH)12(H2O)4][Fe2S4]: A new mineral and the first layered double hydroxide intercalated with dithioferrate (iron disulfide) chains
Mikhail N. Murashko, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Yulia S. Shelukhina, Igor V. Pekov, and Sergey N. Britvin
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