American Mineralogist
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
2365
Melts, mush, and more: Evidence for the state of intermediate-to-silicic arc magmatic systems
Erik W. Klemetti
INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
2367
Nucleation rates of spherulites in natural rhyolitic lava
James E. Gardner, Kenneth S. Befus, James M. Watkins, and Travis Clow
2377
Silicic magma reservoirs in the Earth’s crust
Olivier Bachmann and Christian Huber
NEW ADVANCES IN SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMA GENESIS
2405
Petrogenesis of antecryst-bearing arc basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Insights into along-arc variations in magma-mush ponding depths, H2O contents, and surface heat flux
Georg F. Zellmer, Mattia Pistone, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Benjamin J. Andrews, Arturo Gómez-Tuena, Susanne M. Straub, and Elizabeth Cottrell
SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
2423
Wayneburnhamite, Pb9Ca6(Si2O7)3(SiO4)3, an apatite polysome: The Mn-free analog of ganomalite from Crestmore, California
Anthony R. Kampf, Robert M. Housley, and George R. Rossman
2430
U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of apatite in mafic rocks: Evidence for a major magmatic event at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the Armorican Massif (France)
Anthony Pochon, Marc Poujol, Eric Gloaguen, Yannick Branquet, Florence Cagnard, Charles Gumiaux, and Denis Gapais
2443
Quantification of CO2 concentration in apatite
Kathryn Clark, Youxue Zhang, and Fabian U. Naab
2452
Phosphate minerals in the H group of ordinary chondrites, and fluid activity recorded by apatite heterogeneity in the Zag H3-6 regolith breccia
Rhian H. Jones, Francis M. McCubbin, and Yunbin Guan
2468
In situ elemental and isotopic analysis of fluorapatite from the Taocun magnetite-apatite deposit, Eastern China: Constraints on fluid metasomatism
Li-Ping Zeng, Xin-Fu Zhao, Xiao-Chun Li, Hao Hu, and Christopher McFarlane
SPECIAL COLLECTION: GEOLOGY AND GEOBIOLOGY OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
2484
Acido-thermotolerant fungi from Boiling Springs Lake, LVNP: Potential for lignocellulosic biofuels
Bryan Ervin and Gordon Wolfe
REGULAR ARTICLE
2498
Solid solution along the synthetic LiAlSi2O6-LiFeSi2O6 (spodumene-ferri-spodumene) join: A general picture of solid solutions, bond lengths, lattice strains, steric effects, symmetries, and chemical compositions of Li clinopyroxenes
Gianluca Iezzi, Geoffrey D. Bromiley, Andrea Cavallo, Partha P. Das, Fotini Karavassili, Irene Margiolaki, Andrew A. Stewart, Mario Tribaudino, and Jonathan P. Wright
2514
Formation of hydrous stishovite from coesite in high-pressure hydrothermal environments
Kristina Spektor, Johanna Nylen, Renny Mathew, Mattias Edén, Emil Stoyanov, Alexandra Navrotsky, Kurt Leinenweber, and Ulrich Häussermann
2525
Raman characterization of synthetic magnesian calcites
Jonathan Perrin, Daniel Vielzeuf, Didier Laporte, Angèle Ricolleau, George R. Rossman, and Nicole Floquet
2539
Yangite, PbMnSi3O8·H2O, a new mineral species with double wollastonite silicate chains, from the Kombat mine, Namibia
Robert T. Downs, William W. Pinch, Richard M. Thompson, Stanley H. Evans, and Lauren Megaw
2544
Ideal wollastonite and the structural relationship between the pyroxenoids and pyroxenes
Richard M. Thompson, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs
2554
Influence of the octahedral cationic-site occupancies on the framework vibrations of Li-free tourmalines, with implications for estimating temperature and oxygen fugacity in host rocks
Anke Watenphul, Jochen Schlüter, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, Thomas Malcherek, and Boriana Mihailova
2564
In situ X-ray observation of 10 Å phase stability at high pressure
Sergey V. Rashchenko, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Konstantin D. Litasov, and Eiji Ohtani
NEW MINERAL NAMES
2570
New Mineral Names
DEPOSIT ITEMS
2367
Nucleation rates of spherulites in natural rhyolitic lava
James E. Gardner, Kenneth S. Befus, James M. Watkins, and Travis Clow
2405
Petrogenesis of antecryst-bearing arc basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Insights into along-arc variations in magma-mush ponding depths, H2O contents, and surface heat flux
Georg F. Zellmer, Mattia Pistone, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Benjamin J. Andrews, Arturo Gómez-Tuena, Susanne M. Straub, and Elizabeth Cottrell
2423
Wayneburnhamite, Pb9Ca6(Si2O7)3(SiO4)3, an apatite polysome: The Mn-free analog of ganomalite from Crestmore, California
Anthony R. Kampf, Robert M. Housley, and George R. Rossman
2430
U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of apatite in mafic rocks: Evidence for a major magmatic event at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the Armorican Massif (France)
Anthony Pochon, Marc Poujol, Eric Gloaguen, Yannick Branquet, Florence Cagnard, Charles Gumiaux, and Denis Gapais
2452
Phosphate minerals in the H group of ordinary chondrites, and fluid activity recorded by apatite heterogeneity in the Zag H3-6 regolith breccia
Rhian H. Jones, Francis M. McCubbin, and Yunbin Guan
2468
In situ elemental and isotopic analysis of fluorapatite from the Taocun magnetite-apatite deposit, Eastern China: Constraints on fluid metasomatism
Li-Ping Zeng, Xin-Fu Zhao, Xiao-Chun Li, Hao Hu, and Christopher McFarlane
2498
Solid solution along the synthetic LiAlSi2O6-LiFeSi2O6 (spodumene-ferri-spodumene) join: A general picture of solid solutions, bond lengths, lattice strains, steric effects, symmetries, and chemical compositions of Li clinopyroxenes
Gianluca Iezzi, Geoffrey D. Bromiley, Andrea Cavallo, Partha P. Das, Fotini Karavassili, Irene Margiolaki, Andrew A. Stewart, Mario Tribaudino, and Jonathan P. Wright
2525
Raman characterization of synthetic magnesian calcites
Jonathan Perrin, Daniel Vielzeuf, Didier Laporte, Angèle Ricolleau, George R. Rossman, and Nicole Floquet
2539
Yangite, PbMnSi3O8·H2O, a new mineral species with double wollastonite silicate chains, from the Kombat mine, Namibia
Robert T. Downs, William W. Pinch, Richard M. Thompson, Stanley H. Evans, and Lauren Megaw
2554
Influence of the octahedral cationic-site occupancies on the framework vibrations of Li-free tourmalines, with implications for estimating temperature and oxygen fugacity in host rocks
Anke Watenphul, Jochen Schlüter, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, Thomas Malcherek, and Boriana Mihailova
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