American Mineralogist

Volume 100, Issue no. 1112 : November - December 2015

Letter

2749 Dislocation microstructures in simple-shear-deformed wadsleyite at transition-zone conditions: Weak-beam dark-field TEM characterization of dislocations on the (010) plane
Nobuyoshi Miyajima and Takaaki Kawazoe

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2753 Chemical composition and crystal structure of merrillite from the Suizhou meteorite
Hexiong Yang, Xiande Xie, Xiangping Gu and Robert T. Downs

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MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter

2419 Tracking the thermal decomposition of plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite
Robert B. Heimann

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2426 Experimental constraints on bubble formation and growth during magma ascent: A review
Adrian Fiege and Sarah B. Cichy

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2443 Ankerite grains with dolomite cores: A diffusion chronometer for low- to medium-grade regionally metamorphosed clastic sediments
John M. Ferry, Joanne E. Stubbs, Huifang Xu, Yunbin Guan and John M. Eiler

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REGULAR ARTICLES

2458 Crystal structure, high-pressure, and high-temperature behavior of carbonates in the K2Mg(CO3)2–Na2Mg(CO3)2 join
Anastasia Golubkova, Marco Merlini and Max W. Schmidt

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2468 Temperature micro-mapping in oscillatory-zoned chlorite: Application to study of a green-schist facies fault zone in the Pyrenean Axial Zone (Spain)
Vincent Trincal, Pierre Lanari, Martine Buatier, Brice Lacroix, Delphine Charpentier, Pierre Labaume and Manuel Muñoz

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2484 Micro- and nano-characterization of Zn-clays in nonsulfide supergene ores of southern Peru
Nicola Mondillo, Fernando Nieto and Giuseppina Balassone

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2497 Mineralogical characterization of individual growth structures of Mn-nodules with different Ni+Cu content from the central Pacific Ocean
Anna V. Wegorzewski, Thomas Kuhn, Reiner Dohrmann, Richard Wirth and Sylvain Grangeon

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2509 The magma plumbing system of the Emeishan large igneous province and its role in basaltic magma differentiation in a continental setting
Yan Tao, Keith Putirka, Rui-Zhong Hu and Chusi Li

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2518 Weathering of the Ethiopian volcanic province: A new weathering index to characterize and compare soils
Jennifer S. Le Blond, Javier Cuadros, Yordanos B. Molla, Tadesse Berhanu, Mohammed Umer, Peter J. Baxter and Gail Davey

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2533 Recommended mineral-melt partition coefficients for FRTEs (Cu), Ga, and Ge during mantle melting
Véronique Le Roux, Rajdeep Dasgupta and Cin-Ty A. Lee

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2545 Tetrahedral plot diagram: A geometrical solution for quaternary systems
Toshiaki Shimura and Anthony I.S. Kemp

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2548 Investigations on alunogen under Mars-relevant temperature conditions: An example for a single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase transition
Volker Kahlenberg, Doris E. Braun and Maria Orlova

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2559 Crystallization of calcium oxalate hydrates by interaction of calcite marble with fungus Aspergillus niger
Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva), Olga Frank-Kamenetskaya, Dmitry Vlasov, Marina Zelenskaya, Katerina Sazanova, Alexey Rusakov and Rüdiger Kniep

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2566 Direct and indirect evidence for free oxygen (O2–) in MO-silicate glasses and melts (M = Mg, Ca, Pb)
H. Wayne Nesbitt, G. Michael Bancroft, Grant S. Henderson, Ryan Sawyer and Richard A. Secco

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2579 Effect of fluid composition on growth rate of monazite in quartzite at 1.0 GPa and 1000 °C
John C. Ayers, Derek L. Bryant and Kevin Giles

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2590 Determination of the full elastic tensor of single crystals using shear wave velocities by Brillouin spectroscopy
Dawei Fan, Zhu Mao, Jing Yang and Jung-Fu Lin

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2602 Temperature dependence of the velocity-density relation for liquid metals under high pressure: Implications for the Earth’s outer core
Tetsuya Komabayashi, Jinya Kato, Kei Hirose, Satoshi Tsutsui, Saori Imada, Yoichi Nakajima and Alfred Q.R. Baron

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2610 Thermal, compositional, and compressional demagnetization of cementite
David Walker, Jie Li, Bora Kalkan and Simon M. Clark

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2625 The MnCO3-II high-pressure polymorph of rhodocrosite
Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland and Mauro Gemmi

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2630 Lanthanide tetrads in normalized rare element patterns of of zircon from the Koktokay No. 3 granitic pegmatite, Altay, NW China
Yong Tang and Hui Zhang

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2637 Hydrogrossular, Ca3Al2(SiO4)3−x(H4O4)x: An ab initio investigation of its structural and energetic properties
Valentina Lacivita, Agnes Mahmoud, Alessandro Erba, Philippe D’Arco and Sami Mustapha

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2650 High-pressure synthesis of skiagite-majorite garnet and investigation of its crystal structure
Leyla Ismailova, Andrey Bobrov, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Valerio Cerantola, Innokenty Kantor, Ilya Kupenko, Catherine McCammon, Vadim Dyadkin, Dmitry Chernyshov, Sakura Pascarelli, Aleksandr Chumakov, Natalia Dubrovinskaia and Leonid Dubrovinsky

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2655 Mineralogical evolution of Fe–Si-rich layers at the olivine-water interface during carbonation reactions
Giuseppe D. Saldi, Damien Daval, Hua Guo, François Guyot, Sylvain Bernard, Corentin Le Guillou, James A. Davis and Kevin G. Knauss

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2670 High-pressure spectroscopic study of siderite (FeCO3) with a focus on spin crossover
Valerio Cerantola, Catherine McCammon, Ilya Kupenko, Innokenty Kantor, Carlo Marini, Max Wilke, Leyla Ismailova, Natalia Solopova, Aleksandr Chumakov, Sakura Pascarelli and Leonid Dubrovinsky

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2682 Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: I. Amphiboles
Lisa Leissner, Jochen Schlüter, Ingo Horn and Boriana Mihailova

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2695 Apexite, NaMg(PO4)·9H2O, a new struvite-type phase with a heteropolyhedral cluster
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Barbara P. Nash, Martin Jensen and Tony Nikischer

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American Mineralogist      Vol. 107, no. 1   January 2022

15    Boron isotope compositions establish the origin of marble from metamorphic complexes: Québec, New York, and Sri Lanka
Corinne Kuebler, Antonio Simonetti, Stefanie S. Simonetti, and Robert F. Martin

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31    Celleriite, (Mn22+Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH), a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Federico Pezzotta, Alessandra Altieri, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Paolo Ballirano, Gioacchino Tempesta, Jan Cempírek, Radek Škoda, Jan Filip, Renata Čopjaková, Milan Novák, Anthony R. Kampf, Emily D. Scribner, Lee A. Groat, and R. James Evans
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54    Incorporation of incompatible trace elements into molybdenite: Layered PbS precipitates within molybdenite
Yiping Yang, Hongping He, Wei Tan, Qi Tao, Junming Yao, Haiyang Xian, Shangying Li, Jiaxin Xi, Jianxi Zhu, and Huifang Xu
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74    Thermoelastic properties of zircon: Implications for geothermobarometry
Alix M. Ehlers, Gabriele Zaffiro, Ross J. Angel, Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran, Michael A. Carpenter, Matteo Alvaro, and Nancy L. Ross

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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
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92    The atomic arrangement and electronic interactions in vonsenite at 295, 100, and 90 K
Marc Maderazzo, John M. Hughes, M. Darby Dyar, George R. Rossman, Brandon J. Ackley, Elizabeth C. Sklute, Marian V. Lupulescu, and Jeffrey Chiarenzelli
Item #AM-22-17851
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100    Oxalate formation by Aspergillus niger on minerals of manganese ores
Olga Frank-Kamenetskaya, Marina Zelenskaya, Alina Izatulina, Vladislav Gurzhiy, Aleksei Rusakov, and Dmitry Vlasov
Item #AM-22-17651
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116    Mesoproterozoic seafloor authigenic glauconite-berthierine: Indicator of enhanced reverse weathering on early Earth
Jianbai Ma, Xiaoying Shi, Maxwell Lechte, Xiqiang Zhou, Zhenfei Wang, Kangjun Huang, Maxim Rudmin, and Dongjie Tang
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131    Chemical variability in vyacheslavite, U(PO4)(OH): Crystal-chemical implications for hydrous and hydroxylated U4+, Ca, and REE phosphates
Gwladys Steciuk, Radek Škoda, Veronika Dillingerová, and Jakub Plášil
Item #AM-22-17875
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138    Bennesherite, Ba2Fe2+Si2O7: A new melilite group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel
Arkadiusz Krzątała, Biljana Krüger, Irina Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, and Evgeny Galuskin
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147    Single-crystal elasticity of phase Egg AlSiO3OH and δ-AlOOH by Brillouin spectroscopy
Baoyun Wang, Yanyao Zhang, Suyu Fu, Wei Yan, Eiichi Takahashi, Li Li, Jung-Fu Lin, and Maoshuang Song

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LETTERS

2749

Dislocation microstructures in simple-shear-deformed wadsleyite at transition-zone conditions: Weak-beam dark-field TEM characterization of dislocations on the (010) plane
Nobuyoshi Miyajima and Takaaki Kawazoe

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2753

Chemical composition and crystal structure of merrillite from the Suizhou meteorite
Hexiong Yang, Xiande Xie, Xiangping Gu and Robert T. Downs

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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS

2365

On understanding the structure and composition of crystals
I. David Brown

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2367

Stable and metastable silicate liquid immiscibility in ferrobasalts
Bernard Charlier

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2369

When was the Earth’s conveyor belt set in motion?
Igor S. Puchtel

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ROEBLING MEDAL LECTURE

2371

Trace element partitioning into sulfide: How lithophile elements become chalcophile and vice versa
Bernard J. Wood and Ekaterina S. Kiseeva

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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE

2380

Petrology on Mars
Harry Y. McSween Jr.

Open Access

2396

Hf and Nd isotope systematics of early Archean komatiites from surface sampling and ICDP drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
Janne Blichert-Toft, Nicholas T. Arndt, Allan Wilson and Grace Coetzee

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CROSSROADS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS

2412

Quasicrystals at extreme conditions: The role of pressure in stabilizing icosahedral Al63Cu24Fe13 at high temperature
Vincenzo Stagno, Luca Bindi, Changyong Park, Sergey Tkachev, Vitali B. Prakapenka, H.-K. Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Paul J. Steinhardt and Yingwei Fei

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE

2419

Tracking the thermal decomposition of plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite
Robert B. Heimann

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: RATES AND DEPTHS OF MAGMA ASCENT ON EARTH

2426

Experimental constraints on bubble formation and growth during magma ascent: A review
Adrian Fiege and Sarah B. Cichy

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE

2443

Ankerite grains with dolomite cores: A diffusion chronometer for low- to medium-grade regionally metamorphosed clastic sediments
John M. Ferry, Joanne E. Stubbs, Huifang Xu, Yunbin Guan and John M. Eiler

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REGULAR ARTICLE

2458

Crystal structure, high-pressure, and high-temperature behavior of carbonates in the K2Mg(CO3)2–Na2Mg(CO3)2 join
Anastasia Golubkova, Marco Merlini and Max W. Schmidt

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2468

Temperature micro-mapping in oscillatory-zoned chlorite: Application to study of a green-schist facies fault zone in the Pyrenean Axial Zone (Spain)
Vincent Trincal, Pierre Lanari, Martine Buatier, Brice Lacroix, Delphine Charpentier, Pierre Labaume and Manuel Muñoz

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2484

Micro- and nano-characterization of Zn-clays in nonsulfide supergene ores of southern Peru
Nicola Mondillo, Fernando Nieto and Giuseppina Balassone

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2497

Mineralogical characterization of individual growth structures of Mn-nodules with different Ni+Cu content from the central Pacific Ocean
Anna V. Wegorzewski, Thomas Kuhn, Reiner Dohrmann, Richard Wirth and Sylvain Grangeon

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2509

The magma plumbing system of the Emeishan large igneous province and its role in basaltic magma differentiation in a continental setting
Yan Tao, Keith Putirka, Rui-Zhong Hu and Chusi Li

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2518

Weathering of the Ethiopian volcanic province: A new weathering index to characterize and compare soils
Jennifer S. Le Blond, Javier Cuadros, Yordanos B. Molla, Tadesse Berhanu, Mohammed Umer, Peter J. Baxter and Gail Davey

Open Access     Deposit Item

2533

Recommended mineral-melt partition coefficients for FRTEs (Cu), Ga, and Ge during mantle melting
Véronique Le Roux, Rajdeep Dasgupta and Cin-Ty A. Lee

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2545

Tetrahedral plot diagram: A geometrical solution for quaternary systems
Toshiaki Shimura and Anthony I.S. Kemp

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2548

Investigations on alunogen under Mars-relevant temperature conditions: An example for a single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase transition
Volker Kahlenberg, Doris E. Braun and Maria Orlova

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2559

Crystallization of calcium oxalate hydrates by interaction of calcite marble with fungus Aspergillus niger
Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva), Olga Frank-Kamenetskaya, Dmitry Vlasov, Marina Zelenskaya, Katerina Sazanova, Alexey Rusakov and Rüdiger Kniep

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2566

Direct and indirect evidence for free oxygen (O2–) in MO-silicate glasses and melts (M = Mg, Ca, Pb)
H. Wayne Nesbitt, G. Michael Bancroft, Grant S. Henderson, Ryan Sawyer and Richard A. Secco

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2579

Effect of fluid composition on growth rate of monazite in quartzite at 1.0 GPa and 1000 °C
John C. Ayers, Derek L. Bryant and Kevin Giles

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2590

Determination of the full elastic tensor of single crystals using shear wave velocities by Brillouin spectroscopy
Dawei Fan, Zhu Mao, Jing Yang and Jung-Fu Lin

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2602

Temperature dependence of the velocity-density relation for liquid metals under high pressure: Implications for the Earth’s outer core
Tetsuya Komabayashi, Jinya Kato, Kei Hirose, Satoshi Tsutsui, Saori Imada, Yoichi Nakajima and Alfred Q.R. Baron

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2610

Thermal, compositional, and compressional demagnetization of cementite
David Walker, Jie Li, Bora Kalkan and Simon M. Clark

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2625

The MnCO3-II high-pressure polymorph of rhodocrosite
Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland and Mauro Gemmi

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2630

Lanthanide tetrads in normalized rare element patterns of of zircon from the Koktokay No. 3 granitic pegmatite, Altay, NW China
Yong Tang and Hui Zhang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2637

Hydrogrossular, Ca3Al2(SiO4)3−x(H4O4)x: An ab initio investigation of its structural and energetic properties
Valentina Lacivita, Agnes Mahmoud, Alessandro Erba, Philippe D’Arco and Sami Mustapha

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2650

High-pressure synthesis of skiagite-majorite garnet and investigation of its crystal structure
Leyla Ismailova, Andrey Bobrov, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Valerio Cerantola, Innokenty Kantor, Ilya Kupenko, Catherine McCammon, Vadim Dyadkin, Dmitry Chernyshov, Sakura Pascarelli, Aleksandr Chumakov, Natalia Dubrovinskaia and Leonid Dubrovinsky

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2655

Mineralogical evolution of Fe–Si-rich layers at the olivine-water interface during carbonation reactions
Giuseppe D. Saldi, Damien Daval, Hua Guo, François Guyot, Sylvain Bernard, Corentin Le Guillou, James A. Davis and Kevin G. Knauss

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2670

High-pressure spectroscopic study of siderite (FeCO3) with a focus on spin crossover
Valerio Cerantola, Catherine McCammon, Ilya Kupenko, Innokenty Kantor, Carlo Marini, Max Wilke, Leyla Ismailova, Natalia Solopova, Aleksandr Chumakov, Sakura Pascarelli and Leonid Dubrovinsky

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2682

Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: I. Amphiboles
Lisa Leissner, Jochen Schlüter, Ingo Horn and Boriana Mihailova

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2695

Apexite, NaMg(PO4)·9H2O, a new struvite-type phase with a heteropolyhedral cluster
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Barbara P. Nash, Martin Jensen and Tony Nikischer

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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST

2702

The mechanism of infiltration of metamorphic fluids recorded by hydration and carbonation of epidote-amphibolite facies metabasaltic sills in the SW Scottish Highlands
Barbara I. Kleine, Iain K. Pitcairn and Alasdair D.L. Skelton

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BUILDING PLANETS: THE DYNAMICS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CORE FORMATION

2718

The axial ratio of hcp Fe and Fe–Ni–Si alloys to the conditions of Earth’s inner core
Rebecca A. Fischer and Andrew J. Campbell

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2725

Shock-induced mobilization of metal and sulfide in planetesimals: Evidence from the Buck Mountains 005 (L6 S4) dike-bearing chondrite
Alex Ruzicka, Ryan Brown, Jon Friedrich, Melinda Hutson, Richard Hugo and Mark Rivers

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2739

The accretion and differentiation of Earth under oxidizing conditions
R. Bastian Georg and Anat Shahar

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

2371

Trace element partitioning into sulfide: How lithophile elements become chalcophile and vice versa
Bernard J. Wood and Ekaterina S. Kiseeva

Item#: AM-15-115358
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2412

Quasicrystals at extreme conditions: The role of pressure in stabilizing icosahedral Al63Cu24Fe13 at high temperature
Vincenzo Stagno, Luca Bindi, Changyong Park, Sergey Tkachev, Vitali B. Prakapenka, H.-K. Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Paul J. Steinhardt and Yingwei Fei

Item#: AM-15-115412
Supplemental Material
AM-15-115412.zip zipped

2426

Experimental constraints on bubble formation and growth during magma ascent: A review
Adrian Fiege and Sarah B. Cichy

Item#: AM-15-115296
Supplemental Figure and Table
AM-15-115296.zip zipped

2443

Ankerite grains with dolomite cores: A diffusion chronometer for low- to medium-grade regionally metamorphosed clastic sediments
John M. Ferry, Joanne E. Stubbs, Huifang Xu, Yunbin Guan and John M. Eiler

Item#: AM-15-115209
Appendix
AM-15-115209.zip zipped

2497

Mineralogical characterization of individual growth structures of Mn-nodules with different Ni+Cu content from the central Pacific Ocean
Anna V. Wegorzewski, Thomas Kuhn, Reiner Dohrmann, Richard Wirth and Sylvain Grangeon

Item#: AM-15-115122
Supplemental Material
AM-15-115122.zip zipped

2509

The magma plumbing system of the Emeishan large igneous province and its role in basaltic magma differentiation in a continental setting
Yan Tao, Keith Putirka, Rui-Zhong Hu and Chusi Li

Item#: AM-15-114907
Appendices
AM-15-114907.zip zipped

2518

Weathering of the Ethiopian volcanic province: A new weathering index to characterize and compare soils
Jennifer S. Le Blond, Javier Cuadros, Yordanos B. Molla, Tadesse Berhanu, Mohammed Umer, Peter J. Baxter and Gail Davey

Item#: AM-15-115168
Appendix Figures and Tables
AM-15-115168.zip zipped

2545

Tetrahedral plot diagram: A geometrical solution for quaternary systems
Toshiaki Shimura and Anthony I.S. Kemp

Item#: AM-15-115371
Excel file and Appendix
AM-15-115371.zip zipped

2548

Investigations on alunogen under Mars-relevant temperature conditions: An example for a single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase transition
Volker Kahlenberg, Doris E. Braun and Maria Orlova

Item#: AM-15-115342
CIF and Supplementary Tables
AM-15-115342.zip zipped

2590

Determination of the full elastic tensor of single crystals using shear wave velocities by Brillouin spectroscopy
Dawei Fan, Zhu Mao, Jing Yang and Jung-Fu Lin

Item#: AM-15-115311
Supplemental Tables
AM-15-115311.zip zipped

2625

The MnCO3-II high-pressure polymorph of rhodocrosite
Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland and Mauro Gemmi

Item#: AM-15-115320
CIF and Supplemental Material
AM-15-115320.zip zipped

2637

Hydrogrossular, Ca3Al2(SiO4)3−x(H4O4)x: An ab initio investigation of its structural and energetic properties
Valentina Lacivita, Agnes Mahmoud, Alessandro Erba, Philippe D’Arco and Sami Mustapha

Item#: AM-15-115334
Supplemental Material and CIF
AM-15-115334.zip zipped

2650

High-pressure synthesis of skiagite-majorite garnet and investigation of its crystal structure
Leyla Ismailova, Andrey Bobrov, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Valerio Cerantola, Innokenty Kantor, Ilya Kupenko, Catherine McCammon, Vadim Dyadkin, Dmitry Chernyshov, Sakura Pascarelli, Aleksandr Chumakov, Natalia Dubrovinskaia and Leonid Dubrovinsky

Item#: AM-15-115278
CIF
AM-15-115278.zip zipped

2682

Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: I. Amphiboles
Lisa Leissner, Jochen Schlüter, Ingo Horn and Boriana Mihailova

Item#: AM-15-115323
Supplemental Table
AM-15-115323.zip zipped

2695

Apexite, NaMg(PO4)·9H2O, a new struvite-type phase with a heteropolyhedral cluster
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Barbara P. Nash, Martin Jensen and Tony Nikischer

Item#: AM-15-115457
CIF
AM-15-115457.zip zipped

2718

The axial ratio of hcp Fe and Fe–Ni–Si alloys to the conditions of Earth’s inner core
Rebecca A. Fischer and Andrew J. Campbell

Item#: AM-15-115191
Supplementary Figure and Tables
AM-15-115191.zip zipped

2749

Dislocation microstructures in simple-shear-deformed wadsleyite at transition-zone conditions: Weak-beam dark-field TEM characterization of dislocations on the (010) plane
Nobuyoshi Miyajima and Takaaki Kawazoe

Item#: AM-15-115481
Supplemental material
AM-15-115481.zip zipped

2753

Chemical composition and crystal structure of merrillite from the Suizhou meteorite
Hexiong Yang, Xiande Xie, Xiangping Gu and Robert T. Downs

Item#: AM-15-115488
CIF
AM-15-115488.zip zipped
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