American Mineralogist
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1756
Meridianiite: A new mineral species observed on Earth and predicted to exist on Mars
R.C. Peterson, W. Nelson, B. Madu, and H.F. Shurvell
1760
Equations of state of CaIrO3 perovskite and post-perovskite phases
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Reidar G. Tr??nnes, and Daniel J. Frost
1764
Hydrogen-carbonate ion in synthetic high-pressure apatite
Michael E. Fleet and Xi Liu
1768
Effects of irradiation damage on the back-scattering of electrons: Silicon-implanted silicon
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, Dieter Grambole, and Ghislain Trullenque
1772
High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2 μm gradients and slow diffusion in zircon
F. Zeb Page, T. Ushikubo, N.T. Kita, L.R. Riciputi, and J.W. Valley
REGULAR ARTICLE
1545
Ferric iron in Al-bearing akimotoite coexisting with iron-nickel metal in a shock-melt vein in an L-6 chondrite
Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Ahmed El Goresy, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek, Friedrich Seifert, David C. Rubie, Ming Chen, and Xiande Xie
1550
Solidification and microstructures of binary ice-I/hydrate eutectic aggregates
Christine McCarthy, Reid F. Cooper, Stephen H. Kirby, Karen D. Rieck, and Laura A. Stern
1561
A monazite oxygen isotope thermometer
Dan O. Breecker and Zachary D. Sharp
1573
The albite fusion curve re-examined: New experiments and the high-pressure density and compressibility of high albite and NaAlSi3O8 liquid
Travis J. Tenner, Rebecca A. Lange, and Robert T. Downs
1586
XRD and HRTEM analyses of stacking structures in sudoite, di-trioctahedral chlorite
Jun Kameda, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Ryuji Kitagawa, and Toshihiro Kogure
1593
Vibrational dynamics in H+-substituted forsterite: A first-principles molecular dynamics study
Dawn M. Shaw and John S. Tse
1601
Fluorophlogopite from Biancavilla (Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy): Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of a new F-dominant analog of phlogopite
Antonio Gianfagna, Fernando Scordari, Simona Mazziotti-Tagliani, Gennaro Ventruti, and Luisa Ottolini
1610
Pressure-induced over-hydration of thomsonite: A synchrotron powder diffraction study
Anna Yu. Likhacheva, Yuriy V. Seryotkin, Andrey Yu. Manakov, Sergey V. Goryainov, Aleksey I. Ancharov, and Mikhail A. Sheromov
1616
High-pressure optical spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies on synthetic cobalt aluminum silicate garnet
Michail N. Taran, Fabrizio Nestola, Haruo Ohashi, Monika Koch-Müller, Tonci Balic-Zunic, and Lars Arnskov Olsen
1624
In situ observation of the decomposition of kyanite at high pressures and high temperatures
Shigeaki Ono, Yoichi Nakajima, and Kenichi Funakoshi
1630
Mineralogy and crystal structure of bouazzerite from Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: Bi-As-Fe nanoclusters containing Fe3+ in trigonal prismatic coordination
Joël Brugger, Nicolas Meisser, Sergey Krivovichev, Thomas Armbruster, and Georges Favreau
1640
Single-crystal structure refinement of diaspore at 50 GPa
Alexandra Friedrich, Eiken Haussühl, Reinhard Boehler, Wolfgang Morgenroth, Erick A. Juarez-arellano, and Björn Winkler
1645
FTIR spectroscopy of Ti-rich pargasites from Lherz and the detection of O2– at the anionic O3 site in amphiboles
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Fabio Bellatreccia
1652
The relative stability of monazite and huttonite at 300–900 °C and 200–1000 MPa: Metasomatism and the propagation of metastable mineral phases
Daniel E. Harlov, Richard Wirth, and Callum J. Hetherington
1665
Acoustic dissipation associated with phase transitions in lawsonite, CaAl2Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Ruth E.A. Mcknight, Michael A. Carpenter, Tim W. Darling, Andy Buckley, and Paul A. Taylor
1673
Magnetic anisotropy of carbonate minerals at room temperature and 77 K
Volkmar Schmidt, Ann M. Hirt, Kathrin Hametner, and Detlef Günther
1685
Non-ideality and defectivity of the åkermanite-gehlenite solid solution: An X-ray diffraction and TEM study
Mauro Gemmi, Marco Merlini, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Gilberto Artioli
1695
The system Al2O3-P2O5-H2O at temperatures below 200 °C: Experimental data on the stability of variscite and metavariscite AlPO4·2H2O
Kirsten Drüppel, Andreas Hösch, and Gerhard Franz
1704
Low-pressure decomposition of chrysotile as a function of time and temperature
P.A. Candela, C.D. Crummett, D.J. Earnest, M.R. Frank, and A.G. Wylie
1714
Ion exchange equilibrium and structural changes in clinoptilolite irradiated with β- and γ-radiation: Monovalent cations
Daniel Moraetis, George E. Christidis, and Vasilios Perdikatsis
1731
Investigation of dioctahedral smectite hydration properties by modeling of X-ray diffraction profiles: Influence of layer charge and charge location
Eric Ferrage, Bruno Lanson, Boris A. Sakharov, Nicolas Geoffroy, Emmanuel Jacquot, and Victor A. Drits
1744
Growth of large (1 mm) MgSiO3 perovskite single crystals: A thermal gradient method at ultrahigh pressure
Anton Shatskiy, Hiroshi Fukui, Takuya Matsuzaki, Keiji Shinoda, Akira Yoneda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, and Tomoo Katsura
1750
Carbon is not required during crystallization to produce ferrobasalts/ferrodiorites (FTP rocks)
Matthew L. Whitaker, Donald H. Lindsley, Jan M. Kubicek Whitaker, and Hanna Nekvasil
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1776
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Glenn Poirier and Paula C. Piilonen
BOOK REVIEW
1780
BOOK REVIEW: Minerals first discovered in Switzerland…and minerals named after Swiss individuals by Philippe Roth. (2006) ISBN: 3-980-7561-8-1, 239 pages, Kristallographik Verlag, Achberg, Germany
Kurt Bucher
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1704
Low-pressure decomposition of chrysotile as a function of time and temperature
P.A. Candela, C.D. Crummett, D.J. Earnest, M.R. Frank, and A.G. Wylie
Item#: AM-07-030
Appendix III. Thetford Gradual Heating Experiment: Heat times, phases, and area intensity sums as a percentage of maximum intensity of each phase.
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Appendix III. Thetford Gradual Heating Experiment: Heat times, phases, and area intensity sums as a percentage of maximum intensity of each phase.
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1764
Hydrogen-carbonate ion in synthetic high-pressure apatite
Michael E. Fleet and Xi Liu
Item#: AM-07-032
Table 1. Powder X-ray diffraction data for bulk product of experiment LM003 and sodium hydrogen carbonate salt
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Table 1. Powder X-ray diffraction data for bulk product of experiment LM003 and sodium hydrogen carbonate salt
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1772
High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2 μm gradients and slow diffusion in zircon
F. Zeb Page, T. Ushikubo, N.T. Kita, L.R. Riciputi, and J.W. Valley
Item#: AM-07-031
Table D1, Figures D1, D2, and D3. Oxygen isotope analyses by ion microprobe of the Daniel’s Road Adirondack zircon
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Table D1, Figures D1, D2, and D3. Oxygen isotope analyses by ion microprobe of the Daniel’s Road Adirondack zircon
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