American Mineralogist
LETTER
1601
An assessment of nuclear microprobe analyses of B in silicate minerals
Henrik Skogby, Per Kristiansson, and Ulf HÃ¥lenius
1605
Incommensurate phase in the kosmochlor-diopside join: A new polymorph of clinopyroxene
Shizue Sakamoto, Norimasa Shimobayashi, and Masao Kitamura
1608
Elastic properties of hydrous ringwoodite
Jingyun Wang, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Toru Inoue, and Jay D. Bass
1612
Thermochemistry of guest-free melanophlogite
Alexandra Navrotsky, Hongwu Xu, Eric C. Moloy, and Mark D. Welch
1615
A simple model for the pressure preservation index of inclusions in diamond
L.M. Barron
HYDROUS MINERALS AT HIGH PRESSURE
1401
Preface to the Hydrous Minerals at High Pressure Special Issue
Mark Welch and George Lager
1402
Structural systematics of hydrous ringwoodite and water in Earth’s interior
Joseph R. Smyth, Christopher M. Holl, Daniel J. Frost, Steven D. Jacobsen, Falko Langenhorst, and Catherine A. McCammon
1408
Compressibility of phase Egg AlSiO3OH: Equation of state and role of water at high pressure
Carine B. Vanpeteghem, Eiji Ohtani, Tadashi Kondo, Kenichi Takemura, and Takumi Kikegawa
1412
Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of OH-chondrodite and OH-clinohumite at high pressure
Zhenxian Liu, George A. Lager, Russell J. Hemley, and Nancy L. Ross
1416
Structural deformation mechanisms of zeolites under pressure
Rossella Arletti, Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, Alessandra Sani, Gloria Tabacchi, and Giovanna Vezzalini
1428
Pressure-controlled polytypism in hydrous layered materials
Przemyslaw Dera, Charles T. Prewitt, Stefanie Japel, David L. Bish, and Cliff T. Johnston
1446
Pressure-induced phase transformation of kalicinite (KHCO3) at 2.8 GPa and local structural changes around hydrogen atoms
Hiroyuki Kagi, Takaya Nagai, John S. Loveday, Chisato Wada, and John B. Parise
1452
Potential docking sites and positions of hydrogen in high-pressure silicates
Nancy L. Ross, G.V. Gibbs, and Kevin M. Rosso
1460
Contrasting bonding behavior of two hydroxyl-bearing metamorphic minerals under pressure: clinozoisite and topaz
Scott Edwin Bradbury and Quentin Williams
REGULAR ARTICLE
1423
Variation of hydrogen bonded O···O distances in goethite at high pressure
Takaya Nagai, Hiroyuki Kagi, and Takamitsu Yamanaka
1436
OH– in synthetic and natural coesite
Monika Koch-Müller, Przemyslaw Dera, Yingwei Fei, Barry Reno, Nikolai Sobolev, Erik Hauri, and Richard Wysoczanski
1471
Experimental investigation of crystallization kinetics in a haplogranite system
Susan Couch
1486
Assessment of cation substitutions along the gallium and fluorine analogue of the tremolite-glaucophane join
Michael S. Pavlovich Jr. and David M. Jenkins
1496
Experimental hydrothermal alteration of partially metamict zircon
Thorsten Geisler, Robert T. Pidgeon, Reinhardt Kurtz, Wilhelm van Bronswijk, and Helmut Schleicher
1514
On the origin of size-dependent and size-independent crystal growth: Influence of advection and diffusion
Daniel E. Kile and D.D. Eberl
1522
Ordering in spinels—A Monte Carlo study
M. Yu. Lavrentiev, J. A. Purton, and N.L. Allan
1532
Single-crystal in situ high-temperature structural investigation of the I1 – I2/c phase transition in Ca0.2Sr0.8Al2Si2O8 feldspar
Piera Benna and Emiliano Bruno
1542
New clinopyroxene-liquid thermobarometers for mafic, evolved, and volatile-bearing lava compositions, with applications to lavas from Tibet and the Snake River Plain, Idaho
Keith D. Putirka, Haig Mikaelian, Frederick Ryerson, and Henry Shaw
1555
Fe and Ni impurities in synthetic diamond
Yue Meng, Matthew Newville, Steve Sutton, John Rakovan, and Ho-Kwang Mao
1560
Phase transformations and reaction kinetics during the temperature-induced oxidation of natural olivine
Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Mauro Gemmi, and Monica Dapiaggi
1575
Thermal infrared spectroscopy and modeling of experimentally shocked plagioclase feldspars
Jeffrey R. Johnson, Friedrich H??rz, and Matthew I. Staid
1583
Oxygen isotopic composition of nano-scale uraninite at the Oklo-Okélobondo natural fission reactors, Gabon
Mostafa Fayek, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Rodney C. Ewing, Lee R. Riciputi, and Keld A. Jensen
1591
Clinopyroxenite from the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, eastern China: Origin and evolution of garnet exsolution in clinopyroxene
Ru Y. Zhang and Juhn G. Liou
1620
New minerals approved in 2002 and nomenclature modifications approved 1998-2002 by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, International Mineralogical Association
Joel D. Grice (Chairman-Emeritus, CNMMN) and Giovanni Ferraris (Vice-Chairman, CNMMN)
1625
Diopside + F-rich phlogopite at high P and T: Systematics, crystal chemistry and the stability of KMgF3, clinohumite and chondrodite
George E. Harlow
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1626
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor and Andrew C. Roberts
BOOK REVIEW
1630
BOOK REVIEWS: NOBLE GASES IN GEOCHEMISTRY AND COSMOCHEMISTRY by D. Porcelli, C. J. Ballentine, and R. Wieler (eds.). Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 47, 2002, 844 p.
Minoru Ozima
ERRATA
1632
ERRATUM: High-pressure crystal structure of kosmochlor, NaCrSi2O6, and systematics of anisotropic compression in pyroxenes (v. 88, pages 1025-1032).
Marcus J. Origlieri, Robert T. Downs, Richard M. Thompson, Carolyn J.S. Pommier, M. Bonner Denton, and George E. Harlow
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1496
Experimental hydrothermal alteration of partially metamict zircon
Thorsten Geisler, Robert T. Pidgeon, Reinhardt Kurtz, Wilhelm van Bronswijk, and Helmut Schleicher
1532
Single-crystal in situ high-temperature structural investigation of the I1 – I2/c phase transition in Ca0.2Sr0.8Al2Si2O8 feldspar
Piera Benna and Emiliano Bruno
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