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1473
Some Precambrian banded iron-formations (BIFs) from around the world: Their age, geologic setting, mineralogy, metamorphism, geochemistry, and origin
Cornelis Klein
LETTER
1669
An infrared study of carbon-oxygen bonding in magnesite to 60 GPa
Javier Santillán, Krystle Catalli, and Quentin Williams
1674
Metals in quartz-hosted melt inclusions: Natural facts and experimental artifacts
Vadim S. Kamenetsky and Leonid V. Danyushevsky
1679
A high-pressure phase transition of calcite-III
Krystle Catalli and Quentin Williams
1683
Experimental observation of an interface controlled pseudomorphic replacement reaction in a natural crystalline pyrochlore
Thorsten Geisler, Philipp P??ml, Thomas Stephan, Arne Janssen, and Andrew Putnis
1688
A natural scandian garnet
Irina O. Galuskina, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Piotr Dzierzanowski, Thomas Armbruster, and Marcin Kozanecki
REGULAR ARTICLE
1500
Effects of high pressure and high temperature on cation ordering in magnesioferrite, MgFe2O4, using in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction up to 1430 K and 6 GPa
Sytle M. Antao, Ishmael Hassan, Wilson A. Crichton, and John B. Parise
1506
Raman spectroscopy and vibrational analyses of albite: From 25 °C through the melting temperature
David A. McKeown
1518
A new occurrence of xitieshanite [Fe3+(SO4)Cl·6H2O] crystals in acid-mine seepways, Green Valley, Vigo County, Indiana, U.S.A.
Erik Melchiorre, James Mills Jr., Deborah Dale, and Brandon Chapman
1522
Effect of A-site cation radius on ordering of BX6 octahedra in (K,Na)MgF3 perovskite
C. David Martin, Santanu Chaudhuri, Clare P. Grey, and John B. Parise
1534
Crystal chemistry of NaMgF3 perovskite at high pressure and temperature
Jiuhua Chen, Haozhe Liu, C. David Martin, John B. Parise, and Donald J. Weidner
1540
Hyperfine electric field gradient tensors at Fe2+ sites in octahedral layers: Toward understanding oriented single-crystal M??ssbauer spectroscopy measurements of micas
R. James Evans, Denis G. Rancourt, and Michael Grodzicki
1556
Does the bazhenovite structure really contain a thiosulfate group? A structural and spectroscopic study of a sample from the type locality
Luca Bindi, Paola Bonazzi, Luigi Dei, and Angela Zoppi
1563
Light-induced degradation dynamics in realgar: in situ structural investigation using single-crystal X-ray diffraction study and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Atsushi Kyono, Mitsuyoshi Kimata, and Tamao Hatta
1571
Absolute quantification by powder X-ray diffraction of complex mixtures of crystalline and amorphous phases for applications in the Earth sciences
Denis G. Rancourt and Mei-Zhen Dang
1587
Detrital illite crystals identified from crystallite thickness measurements in siliciclastic sediments
Luca Aldega and D.D. Eberl
1597
High-temperature density of lanthanidebearing Na-silicate melts: Partial molar volumes for Ce2O3, Pr2O3, Nd2O3, Sm2O3, Eu2O3, Gd2O3, Tb2O3, Dy2O3, Ho2O3, Er2O3, Tm2O3, and Yb2O3
Philippe Courtial and Donald B. Dingwell
1606
Coupled dichotomies of apatite and fluid composition during contact metamorphism of siliceous carbonate rocks
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry
1619
The effect of zoned garnet on metapelite pseudosection topology and calculated metamorphic P-T paths
Carlos A. Zuluaga, Harold H. Stowell, and Douglas K. Tinkham
1629
Low-pressure and low-temperature K-bearing kosmochloric diopside from the Osayama serpentinite mélange, SW Japan
Tatsuki Tsujimori and Juhn G. Liou
1636
Dehydration of natural stilbite: An in situ FTIR study
P.S.R. Prasad, K. Shiva Prasad, and S. Ramana Murthy
1641
Structural changes accompanying the phase transformation between leadhillite and susannite: A structural study by means of in situ high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Luca Bindi and Silvio Menchetti
1648
Optic properties of centimeter-sized crystals determined in air with the spindle stage using EXCALIBRW
Mickey E. Gunter, Robert T. Downs, Kurt L. Bartelmehs, Stanley H. Evans, Carolyn J.S. Pommier, Jack S. Grow, Matthew S. Sanchez, and F. Donald Bloss
1655
Zoltaiite, a new barium-vanadium nesosubsilicate mineral from British Columbia: Description and crystal structure
Paul R. Bartholomew, Franco Mancini, Christopher Cahill, George E. Harlow, and Heinz-Juergen Bernhardt
1661
Mn-tourmaline from island of Elba (Italy): Crystal chemistry
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanna Agrosì, Sergio Lucchesi, Giovanni Melchiorre, and Eugenio Scandale
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1556
Does the bazhenovite structure really contain a thiosulfate group? A structural and spectroscopic study of a sample from the type locality
Luca Bindi, Paola Bonazzi, Luigi Dei, and Angela Zoppi
Item#: AM-05-022
Table 2. List of observed and calculated structure factors for the crystal examined
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Table 2. List of observed and calculated structure factors for the crystal examined
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1597
High-temperature density of lanthanidebearing Na-silicate melts: Partial molar volumes for Ce2O3, Pr2O3, Nd2O3, Sm2O3, Eu2O3, Gd2O3, Tb2O3, Dy2O3, Ho2O3, Er2O3, Tm2O3, and Yb2O3
Philippe Courtial and Donald B. Dingwell
Item#: AM-05-028
Appendix B. Data relevant to the present melts used for the separate linear regressions
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Appendix B. Data relevant to the present melts used for the separate linear regressions
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Structural changes accompanying the phase transformation between leadhillite and susannite: A structural study by means of in situ high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Luca Bindi and Silvio Menchetti
Item#: AM-05-024
Table 5. Anisotropic displacement parameters for leadhillite at room temperature
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Table 5. Anisotropic displacement parameters for leadhillite at room temperature
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A natural scandian garnet
Irina O. Galuskina, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Piotr Dzierzanowski, Thomas Armbruster, and Marcin Kozanecki
Item#: AM-05-023
Table 3. Atomic coordinates, site mean atomic number (m.a.n.), displacement parameters (2), and selected interatomic distances () for Zr-Sc-schorlomite
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Table 3. Atomic coordinates, site mean atomic number (m.a.n.), displacement parameters (2), and selected interatomic distances () for Zr-Sc-schorlomite
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