American Mineralogist
Open AccessLETTER
1650
Differential degassing of H2O, Cl, F, and S: Potential effects on lunar apatite
Gokce Ustunisik, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald Lindsley
AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
1636
An experimental study of phosphorous and aluminosilicate speciation in and partitioning between aqueous fluids and silicate melts determined in-situ at high temperature and pressure
Bj??rn O. Mysen
REGULAR ARTICLE
1425
Compressional wave velocity measurements through sandy sediments containing methane hydrate
Qin Zhang, Feng-Guang Li, Chang-Yu Sun, Qing-Ping Li, Xiang-Yang Wu, Bei Liu, and Guang-Jin Chen
1433
The turquoise-chalcosiderite Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O solid-solution series: A Mössbauer spectroscopy, XRD, EMPA, and FTIR study
Yassir A. Abdu, Sharon K. Hull, Mostafa Fayek, and Frank C. Hawthorne
1443
Variability in sepiolite: Diffraction studies
Manuel Sánchez del RÃo, Emilia GarcÃa-Romero, Mercedes Suárez, Iván da Silva, Luis Fuentes-Montero, and Gema MartÃnez-Criado
1455
Rankamaite from the Urubu pegmatite, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Crystal chemistry and Rietveld refinement
Daniel Atencio, Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho, Stuart J. Mills, José M.V. Coutinho, Sara B. Honorato, Alejandro P. Ayala, Javier Ellena, and Marcelo B. de Andrade
1461
Zeolitic-type Brønsted-Lowry sites distribution imaged on clinochlore
Giovanni Valdrè, Sergio Tosoni, and Daniele Moro
1467
Thermodynamic properties of alloys of gold-74/palladium-26 with variable amounts of iron and the use of Au-Pd-Fe alloys as containers for experimental petrology
J. Brian Balta, John R. Beckett, and Paul D. Asimow
1475
A first-principles investigation of hydrous defects and IR frequencies in forsterite: The case for Si vacancies
Koichiro Umemoto, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Marc M. Hirschmann, David L. Kohlstedt, and Anthony C. Withers
1480
Estimating compositions of natural ringwoodite in the heavily shocked Grove Mountains 052049 meteorite from Raman spectra
L. Feng, Y. Lin, S. Hu, L. Xu, and B. Miao
1490
Phase stability and compression study of (Fe0.89,Ni0.11)3S up to pressure of the Earth’s core
Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Masaaki Miyahara, and Masahiko Nishijima
1495
The compression pathway of quartz
Richard M. Thompson, Robert T. Downs, and Przemyslaw Dera
1503
Experimental investigations into the silicification of olivine: Implications for the reaction mechanism and acid neutralization
Helen E. King, Oliver Plümper, Thorsten Geisler, and Andrew Putnis
1512
The effect of polymorphic structure on the structural and chemical stability of yttrium disilicates
Evgeny Galunin, Miquel Vidal, and Mar??a D. Alba
1521
Diffusion in yttrium aluminium garnet at the nanometer-scale: Insight into the effective grain boundary width
Katharina Marquardt, Quentin M. Ramasse, Christian Kisielowski, and Richard Wirth
1530
Elasticity and anisotropy of Fe3C at high pressures
Mainak Mookherjee
1537
Raman spectroscopy of titanomagnetites: Calibration of the intensity of Raman peaks as a sensitive indicator for their Ti content
Pavel Zinin, Lisa Tatsumi-Petrochilos, Lydie Bonal, Tayro Acosta, Julia Hammer, Stuart Gilder, and Mike Fuller
1547
Experimental determination of stability relations between monazite, fluorapatite, allanite, and REE-epidote as a function of pressure, temperature, and fluid composition
Bartosz Budzyń, Daniel E. Harlov, Michael L. Williams, and Michael J. Jercinovic
1568
Quantum-mechanical calculations of the Raman spectra of Mg- and Fe-cordierite
Reinhard Kaindl, Daniel M. T??bbens, and Udo Haefeker
1575
Coarsening kinetics of coexisting peristerite and film microperthite over 104 to 105 years
Ian Parsons and John D. Fitz Gerald
1585
Local structure variations observed in orthoenstatite at high pressures
Dongzhou Zhang, Jennifer M. Jackson, Wolfgang Sturhahn, and Yuming Xiao
1593
Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Mami Shimokawa, Noriaki Nakayama, Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Maki Okube, and Akira Yoshiasa
1606
Effect of hydration on the single-crystal elasticity of Fe-bearing wadsleyite to 12 GPa
Zhu Mao, Steven D. Jacobsen, Daniel J. Frost, Catherine A. McCammon, Erik H. Hauri, and Thomas S. Duffy
1613
Early Proterozoic weathering processes under low O2 conditions reconstructed from a 2.45 Ga paleosol in Pronto, Canada
Takashi Murakami, Takeshi Kasama, and Satoshi Utsunomiya
1624
Eliseevite, Na1.5Li[Ti2Si4O12.5(OH)1.5]·2H2O, a new microporous titanosilicate from the Lovozero alkaline massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)
Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ekaterina A. Selivanova, Julia A. Korchak, Yuri P. Men’shikov, Svetlana V. Drogobuzhskaya, and Oleg A. Zalkind
1630
The development of shape- and crystallographic-preferred orientation in CaPtO3 post-perovskite deformed in pure shear
Richard McCormack, David P. Dobson, Nicolas P. Walte, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ian G. Wood
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1654
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen, Ralph Rowe, Glenn Poirier, and Kimberly T. Tait
MEMORIAL
1662
Memorial of Rustum Roy, 1924–2010
Sridhar Komarneni
BOOK REVIEW
1664
BOOK REVIEW, NANOSCALE: VISUALIZING AN INVISIBLE WORLD by Kenneth S. Deffreyes and Stephen E. Deffreyes
John C. Schumacher
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1443
Variability in sepiolite: Diffraction studies
Manuel Sánchez del RÃo, Emilia GarcÃa-Romero, Mercedes Suárez, Iván da Silva, Luis Fuentes-Montero, and Gema MartÃnez-Criado
1475
A first-principles investigation of hydrous defects and IR frequencies in forsterite: The case for Si vacancies
Koichiro Umemoto, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Marc M. Hirschmann, David L. Kohlstedt, and Anthony C. Withers
1495
The compression pathway of quartz
Richard M. Thompson, Robert T. Downs, and Przemyslaw Dera
Item#: AM-11-054
Appendix Figures 1Ð7 and Appendix Table (Hypothetical Crystal Structures)
AM-11-054.zip zipped
Appendix Figures 1Ð7 and Appendix Table (Hypothetical Crystal Structures)
AM-11-054.zip zipped
1568
Quantum-mechanical calculations of the Raman spectra of Mg- and Fe-cordierite
Reinhard Kaindl, Daniel M. T??bbens, and Udo Haefeker
1593
Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Mami Shimokawa, Noriaki Nakayama, Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Maki Okube, and Akira Yoshiasa
Item#: AM-11-050
Supplementary Tables 1Ð3 and Crystallographic Information File
AM-11-050.zip zipped
Supplementary Tables 1Ð3 and Crystallographic Information File
AM-11-050.zip zipped
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