American Mineralogist
LETTER
1804
A natural photoelectrochemical cell for water splitting: Implications for early Earth and Mars
Carrick M. Eggleston, Justin R. Stern, Tess M. Strellis, and Bruce A. Parkinson
1808
In situ observation of the breakdown of magnetite (Fe3O4) to Fe4O5 and hematite at high pressures and temperatures
Alan B. Woodland, Daniel J. Frost, Dmytro M. Trots, Kevin Klimm, and Mohamed Mezouar
1812
The crystal structure of bartelkeite, with a revised chemical formula, PbFeGeVI(GeIV2O7)(OH)2·H2O, isotypic with high-pressure P21/m lawsonite
Marcus J. Origlieri, Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Esther S. Posner, Kenneth J. Domanik, and William W. Pinch
MSA ROEBLING MEDAL LECTURE
1533
Mineralogy, petrology, U-Pb geochronology, and geologic evolution of the Dabie-Sulu classic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane, East-Central China
Juhn G. Liou, Ruyuan Zhang, Fulai Liu, Zeming Zhang, and W. Gary Ernst
REGULAR ARTICLE
1544
Brittle-ductile microfabrics in naturally deformed zircon: Deformation mechanisms and consequences for U-Pb dating
Sandra Piazolo, HÃ¥kon Austrheim, and Martin Whitehouse
1564
In situ hot-stage AFM study of the dissolution of the barite (001) surface in water at 30–55 °C
Yoshihiro Kuwahara
1574
A multi-domain gem-grade Brazilian apatite
Tom Baikie, Martin K. Schreyer, Chui Ling Wong, Stevin S. Pramana, Wim T. Klooster, Cristiano Ferraris, Garry J. McIntyre, and T.J. White
1582
High-temperature structural behaviors of anhydrous wadsleyite and forsterite
Dmytro M. Trots, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Daniel J. Frost
1591
Synthetic B-rich olenite: Correlations of single-crystal structural data
Andreas Ertl, Gerald Giester, Thomas Ludwig, Hans-Peter Meyer, and George R. Rossman
1598
Rates and mechanism of Y, REE, and Cr diffusion in garnet
William D. Carlson
1619
EPR discrimination of microcrystalline calcite geomaterials
Francesco Di Benedetto, Antonella Buccianti, Giordano Montegrossi, Massimo Innocenti, Carlo Andrea Massa, Luca A. Pardi, and Maurizio Romanelli
1627
Crystal chemistry of Bi- and Mn-bearing vesuvianite from LÃ¥ngban, Sweden
Lee A. Groat and R. James Evans
1635
Cation ordering in Pb2+-bearing, Mn3+-rich pargasite from LÃ¥ngban, Sweden
Ulf HÃ¥lenius and Ferdinando Bosi
1641
Long-term solid-phase fate of co-precipitated U(VI)-Fe(III) following biological iron reduction by Thermoanaerobacter
Andrew S. Madden, Andrew L. Swindle, Melanie J. Beazley, Ji-Won Moon, Bruce Ravel, and Tommy J. Phelps
1653
The sulfur speciation in S-bearing minerals: New constraints by a combination of electron microprobe analysis and DFT calculations with special reference to sodalite-group minerals
Kai Hettmann, Thomas Wenzel, Michael Marks, and Gregor Markl
1662
Semi-quantitative determination of the Fe/Mg ratio in synthetic cordierite using Raman spectroscopy
Udo Haefeker, Reinhard Kaindl, and Peter Tropper
1670
Simultaneous sound velocity and density measurements of NaCl at high temperatures and pressures: Application as a primary pressure standard
Masanori Matsui, Yuji Higo, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Tetsuo Irifune, and Ken-Ichi Funakoshi
1676
The temperature and compositional dependence of disordering in Fe-bearing dolomites
Ettore Franzolin, Marco Merlini, Stefano Poli, and Max W. Schmidt
1685
Quantifying crystallization and devitrification of rhyolites by means of X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis
Michael C. Rowe, Ben S. Ellis, and Abbie Lindeberg
1700
Reactions of strontium anorthite with H2O+CaCl2 fluids at 500 °C and high pressure: Kinetic information from in situ synchrotron-radiation XRF analyses of the fluid
Christian Schmidt, Richard Wirth, Max Wilke, Maria Mrosko, and Karen Appel
1708
Solubility of xenotime in a 2 M HCl aqueous fluid from 1.2 to 2.6 GPa and 300 to 500 °C
Elizabeth A. Tanis, Adam Simon, Oliver Tschauner, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Gouyin Shen, John M. Hanchar, and Mark Frank
1714
Elastic and anelastic anomalies due to spin-state transitions in orthorhombic perovskite from isoelectronic behavior of Co3+ and Fe2+
Zhiying Zhang, Johannes Koppensteiner, Wilfried Schranz, and Michael A. Carpenter
1726
Accurate determination of ferric iron in garnets by bulk M??ssbauer spectroscopy and synchrotron micro-XANES
M. Darby Dyar, Elly A. Breves, Erica Emerson, Samuel W. Bell, Melissa Nelms, Marie V. Ozanne, Samantha E. Peel, Marco L. Carmosino, Jonathan M. Tucker, Mickey E. Gunter, Jeremy S. Delaney, Antonio Lanzirotti, and Alan B. Woodland
1741
Re-investigation of the crystal structure of enstatite under high-pressure conditions
Benedetta Periotto, Tonci Balić-Žunić, Fabrizio Nestola, Anna Katerinopoulou, and Ross J. Angel
1749
Second-order P6c2-P31c transition and structural crystallography of the cyclosilicate benitoite, BaTiSi3O9, at high pressure
Clivia Hejny, Ronald Miletich, Andreas Jasser, Pascal Schouwink, Wilson Crichton, and Volker Kahlenberg
1764
High-pressure structural studies of eskolaite by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Anastasia Kantor, Innokenty Kantor, Marco Merlini, Konstantin Glazyrin, Clemens Prescher, Michael Hanfland, and Leonid Dubrovinsky
1771
Almandine: Lattice and non-lattice heat capacity behavior and standard thermodynamic properties
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, and Artur Benisek
1783
Witzkeite: A new rare nitrate-sulphate mineral from a guano deposit at Punta de Lobos, Chile
Fabrizio Nestola, Fernando Cámara, Nikita V. Chukanov, Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho, and Gunnar Färber
1788
Krasheninnikovite, KNa2CaMg(SO4)3F, a new mineral from the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
Igor V. Pekov, Michael E. Zelenski, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Ksenofontov, Yuriy K. Kabalov, Nikita V. Chukanov, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Dmitry Y. Pushcharovsky
1796
Crystal structure of pseudojohannite, with a revised formula, Cu3(OH)2[(UO2)4O4(SO4)2](H2O)12
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfjfarová, Kia Sheree Wallwork, Michal Dušek, Radek Škoda, Jiřà Sejkora, Jiřà Čejka, František Veselovský, Jan Hloušek, Nicolas Meisser, and Joël Brugger
AWARD
1816
Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2012 to Roberta L. Rudnick
Albrecht Hofmann
1817
Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2012
Roberta L. Rudnick
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1818
New Mineral Names
Dmitry Belakovskiy, and Kimberly T. Tait
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1574
A multi-domain gem-grade Brazilian apatite
Tom Baikie, Martin K. Schreyer, Chui Ling Wong, Stevin S. Pramana, Wim T. Klooster, Cristiano Ferraris, Garry J. McIntyre, and T.J. White
1582
High-temperature structural behaviors of anhydrous wadsleyite and forsterite
Dmytro M. Trots, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Daniel J. Frost
Appendix 1. Tables of structural parameters and Crystallographic Information Files
AM-12-073.zip zipped
1627
Crystal chemistry of Bi- and Mn-bearing vesuvianite from LÃ¥ngban, Sweden
Lee A. Groat and R. James Evans
1635
Cation ordering in Pb2+-bearing, Mn3+-rich pargasite from LÃ¥ngban, Sweden
Ulf HÃ¥lenius and Ferdinando Bosi
1641
Long-term solid-phase fate of co-precipitated U(VI)-Fe(III) following biological iron reduction by Thermoanaerobacter
Andrew S. Madden, Andrew L. Swindle, Melanie J. Beazley, Ji-Won Moon, Bruce Ravel, and Tommy J. Phelps
1676
The temperature and compositional dependence of disordering in Fe-bearing dolomites
Ettore Franzolin, Marco Merlini, Stefano Poli, and Max W. Schmidt
1685
Quantifying crystallization and devitrification of rhyolites by means of X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis
Michael C. Rowe, Ben S. Ellis, and Abbie Lindeberg
1700
Reactions of strontium anorthite with H2O+CaCl2 fluids at 500 °C and high pressure: Kinetic information from in situ synchrotron-radiation XRF analyses of the fluid
Christian Schmidt, Richard Wirth, Max Wilke, Maria Mrosko, and Karen Appel
1741
Re-investigation of the crystal structure of enstatite under high-pressure conditions
Benedetta Periotto, Tonci Balić-Žunić, Fabrizio Nestola, Anna Katerinopoulou, and Ross J. Angel
1749
Second-order P6c2-P31c transition and structural crystallography of the cyclosilicate benitoite, BaTiSi3O9, at high pressure
Clivia Hejny, Ronald Miletich, Andreas Jasser, Pascal Schouwink, Wilson Crichton, and Volker Kahlenberg
1771
Almandine: Lattice and non-lattice heat capacity behavior and standard thermodynamic properties
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, and Artur Benisek
1783
Witzkeite: A new rare nitrate-sulphate mineral from a guano deposit at Punta de Lobos, Chile
Fabrizio Nestola, Fernando Cámara, Nikita V. Chukanov, Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho, and Gunnar Färber
1796
Crystal structure of pseudojohannite, with a revised formula, Cu3(OH)2[(UO2)4O4(SO4)2](H2O)12
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfjfarová, Kia Sheree Wallwork, Michal Dušek, Radek Škoda, Jiřà Sejkora, Jiřà Čejka, František Veselovský, Jan Hloušek, Nicolas Meisser, and Joël Brugger
1808
In situ observation of the breakdown of magnetite (Fe3O4) to Fe4O5 and hematite at high pressures and temperatures
Alan B. Woodland, Daniel J. Frost, Dmytro M. Trots, Kevin Klimm, and Mohamed Mezouar
1812
The crystal structure of bartelkeite, with a revised chemical formula, PbFeGeVI(GeIV2O7)(OH)2·H2O, isotypic with high-pressure P21/m lawsonite
Marcus J. Origlieri, Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Esther S. Posner, Kenneth J. Domanik, and William W. Pinch
1818
New Mineral Names
Dmitry Belakovskiy, and Kimberly T. Tait
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