1715

Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules
Robert M. Hazen

1937

Crystallographic alignments in a coccolith (Pleurochrysis carterae) revealed by electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD)
Kazuko Saruwatari, Noriaki Ozaki,Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

1941

High-pressure study of FeS, between 20 and 120 GPa, using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction
Shigeaki Ono and Takumi Kikegawa

1730

A rare garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the granulite-facies region of south-central Massachusetts
Jennifer A. Thomson

1739

Effects of natural radiation damage on backscattered electron images of single crystals of minerals
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, John M. Hanchar, Marion Tichomirowa, Donald W. Davis, and Wolfgang Hofmeister

1747

Thermal diffusivity of olivine-group minerals at high temperature
Maik Pertermann and Anne M. Hofmeister

1761

Quantum mechanical vs. empirical potential modeling of uranium dioxide (UO₂) surfaces: (111), (110), and (100)
Frances N. Skomurski, Rodney C. Ewing, Andrew L. Rohl, Julian D. Gale, and Udo Becker

1773

A XANES study of Cu speciation in high-temperature brines using synthetic fluid inclusions
Andrew J. Berry, Alistair C. Hack, John A. Mavrogenes, Matthew Newville, and Stephen R. Sutton

1783

A new approach to determine and quantify structural units in silicate glasses using micro-reflectance Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy
Kim N. Dalby and Penelope L. King

1794

Titanium incorporation and ^VITi³⁺–^IVTi⁴⁺ charge transfer in synthetic diopside
Henrik Skogby, Ulf HÃ¥lenius, Per Kristiansson, and Haruo Ohashi

1802

Hugoniot and impact-induced phase transition of magnesite
Toshimori Sekine, Hongliang He, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Akira Yamaguchi

1807

Finite element modeling of elastic volume changes in fluid inclusions: Comparison with experiment
Pamela C. Burnley and Christian Schmidt

1815

Thermodynamics of mixing in pyrope-grossular, Mg₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂-Ca₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂, solid solution from lattice dynamics calculations and Monte Carlo simulations
Victor L. Vinograd and Marcel H.F. Sluiter

1831

Does antigorite really contain 4- and 8-membered rings of tetrahedra?
István Dódony, Mihály Pósfai, and Peter R. Buseck

1839

New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and A. Loose

1847

Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared spectroscopic studies
Andreas Ertl, John M. HOliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrensughes, Stefan Prowatke, Thomas Ludwig, Pinnelli S.R. Prasad, Franz Brandstätter, Wilfried Körner, Ralf Schuster, Franz Pertlik, and Horst Marschall

1857

Recovery of stishovite-structure at ambient conditions out of shock-generated amorphous silica
Oliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrens

1863

New experimental data on biotite + magnetite + sanidine saturated phonolitic melts and application to the estimation of magmatic water fugacity
Alessandro Fabbrizio, Paul J. Rouse, and Michael R. Carroll

1871

Structural effects of pressure on triclinic chlorite: A single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, M. Montagnoli, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

1879

New high-pressure phase relations in CaSnO₃
Taku Tsuchiya and Jun Tsuchiya

1888

A high-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of hafnon, HfSiO₄
Bouchaib Manoun, Robert T. Downs, and Surendra K. Saxena

1893

Single-crystal elasticity of brucite, Mg(OH)₂, to 15 GPa by Brillouin scattering
Fuming Jiang, Sergio Speziale, and Thomas S. Duffy

1901

The effect of composition on Cr²⁺/Cr³⁺ in silicate melts
Andrew J. Berry, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, Dean R. Scott, Garry J. Foran, and J.M.G. Shelley

1909

Phosphohedyphane, Ca₂Pb₃(PO₄)₃Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure
Anthony R. Kampf, Ian M. Steele, and Robert A. Jenkins

1918

Synthesis of novel lead-molybdenum and lead-tungsten oxyhalides with the pinalite structure, Pb₃MoO₅C_l2 and Pb₃WO₅Br₂
Dmitri O. Charkin and Philip Lightfoot

1922

Depolymerization effect of water in aluminosilicate glasses: Direct evidence from ¹H-²⁷Al heteronuclear correlation NMR
Xianyu Xue and Masami Kanzaki

1927

Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data
Bogdan P. Onac, Herta Effenberger, Karl Ettinger, and Simona Cinta Panzaru

1932

Matioliite, the Mg-analog of burangaite, from Gentil mine, Mendes Pimentel, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and other occurrences
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, and Javier A. Ellena

1945

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Andrew J. Locock, T. Scott Ercit, Johan Kjellman, And Paula C. Piilonen,

1955

BOOK REVIEW
Florie Caporuscio

1956

ERRATUM: Icosahedral coordination of phosphorus in the crystal structure of melliniite, a new phosphide mineral from the Northwest Africa 1054 acapulcoite by Giovanni Pratesi, Luca Bindi, and Vanni Moggi-Cecchi (vol. 91, 451-454, 2006, DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.478).

1839

New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and A. Loose

1871

Structural effects of pressure on triclinic chlorite: A single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, M. Montagnoli, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

1932

Matioliite, the Mg-analog of burangaite, from Gentil mine, Mendes Pimentel, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and other occurrences
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, and Javier A. Ellena