American Mineralogist
LETTER
2056
Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zakłodzie meteorite
Chi Ma, John R. Beckett, and George R. Rossman
2060
Mineralogical variation of silica induced by Al and Na in hydrothermal solutions
Hanae Saishu, Atsushi Okamoto, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya
SPECIAL COLLECTION: AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
2049
First-principles study of self-diffusion and viscous flow in diopside (CaMgSi2O6) liquid
Ashok K. Verma and Bijaya B. Karki
REGULAR ARTICLE
1821
Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales in the MgAl2O4-CuAl2O4 series
Rosa Anna Fregola, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, and Ulf HÃ¥lenius
1828
Blue spinel crystals in the MgAl2O4-CoAl2O4 series: Part I. Flux growth and chemical characterization
Veronica D’Ippolito, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Ferdinando Bosi, and Ulf Hålenius
1834
Blue spinel crystals in the MgAl2O4-CoAl2O4 series: Part II. Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales
Ferdinando Bosi, Ulf Hålenius, Veronica D’Ippolito, and Giovanni B. Andreozzi
1841
CO2 solubility in primitive martian basalts similar to Yamato 980459, the effect of composition on CO2 solubility of basalts, and the evolution of the martian atmosphere
Ben D. Stanley, Douglas R. Schaub, and Marc M. Hirschmann
1849
New structural features of the high-pressure synthetic sheet-disilicate Phase-X, K(2–x)Mg2Si2O7Hx
Mark D. Welch, Jürgen Konzett, Luca Bindi, Simon C. Kohn, and Daniel J. Frost
1858
Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations
Bing Zhou, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Yuanming Pan, Yefeng Yao, Kimberly T. Tait, Brendt C. Hyde, John E.C. Wren, Barbara L. Sherriff, and Scott Kroeker
1866
Hydrogen-bond system and dehydration behavior of the natural zeolite parthéite
Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Bernard W. Liebich, and Lukas Perfler
1874
In situ dehydration behavior of zeolite-like cavansite: A single-crystal X-ray study
Rosa Micaela Danisi, Thomas Armbruster, and Biljana Lazic
1881
LREE-redistribution among fluorapatite, monazite, and allanite at high pressures and temperatures
Erwin Krenn, Daniel E. Harlov, Fritz Finger, and Bernd Wunder
1891
A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of hambergite, Be2BO3(OH,F)
G. Diego Gatta, Garry J. McIntyre, Geoffrey Bromiley, Alessandro Guastoni, and Fabrizio Nestola
1898
Analyzing water contents in unexposed glass inclusions in quartz crystals
Kenneth S. Befus, James E. Gardner, and Robert W. Zinke
1905
The atomic structure of deuterated boyleite ZnSO4·4D2O, ilesite MnSO4·4D2O, and bianchite ZnSO4·6D2O
Jennifer L. Anderson, Ronald C. Peterson, and Ian Swainson
1915
Synthesis and crystal chemistry of Fe3+-bearing (Mg,Fe3+)(Si,Fe3+)O3 perovskite
Daniel R. Hummer and Yingwei Fei
1922
Mixed-layered structure formation during trans-vacant Al-rich illite partial dehydroxylation
Victor A. Drits, Douglas K. McCarty, and Arkadiusz Derkowski
1939
Structural regularities in 2M1 dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach
Bella B. Zviagina and Victor A. Drits
1955
Incorporation of Fe and Al in MgSiO3 perovskite: An investigation by 27Al and 29Si NMR spectroscopy
Aaron C. Palke, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Dan J. Frost, and Catherine A. McCammon
1965
In situ high-temperature Raman and FTIR spectroscopy of the phase transformation of lizardite
Roy Trittschack, Bernard Grobéty, and Monika Koch-Müller
1977
Packing systematics and structural relationships of the new copper molybdate markascherite and related minerals
Richard M. Thompson, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs
1987
On the origin of sellaite (MgF2)-rich deposits in Mg-poor environments
Katharina Pfaff, Sebastian Staude, and Gregor Markl
1998
Edgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4F2-hydroxyledgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4(OH)2, a new series of calcium humite-group minerals from altered xenoliths in the ignimbrite of Upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Viktor M. Gazeev, Roman Włodyka, Mateusz Dulski, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Leonid S. Dubrovinsky
2007
Whelanite, Cu2Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Stefano Merlino, Marco Pasero, Andrew M. McDonald, William B. Wray, and James R. Hindman
2016
2M1-phlogopite from Black Hills (South Australia): The first case of configurational polytype in micas
Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Ernesto Mesto, and Maria Lacalamita
2024
Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, and Henrik Skogby
NEW MINERAL NAMES
2064
New Mineral Names
G. Diego Gatta, Fernando Cámara, Kimberly T. Tait, and Dmitry Belakovskiy
IMA REPORT
2031
Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup
Frank C. Hawthorne, Roberta Oberti, George E. Harlow, Walter V. Maresch, Robert F. Martin, John C. Schumacher, and Mark D. Welch
MEMORIAL
2073
Memorial of Renaud Vochten, 1933–2012
Henri Dillen
BOOK REVIEW
2075
BOOK REVIEW: FRONTIERS IN GEOCHEMISTRY: CONTRIBUTIONS OF GEOCHEMISTRY TO THE STUDY OF THE EARTH by Russell S. Harmon and Andrew Parker, Editors. (2011) Wiley-Blackwell, paperback 280 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9338-2
Heather Handley and Simon Turner
ERRATUM
2076
ERRATUM: Tobelite and NH4+-rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry by Ernesto Mesto, Fernando Scordari, Maria Lacalamita, and Emanuela Schingaro (vol. 97, p. 1460–1468, 2012: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2012.4
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1821
Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales in the MgAl2O4-CuAl2O4 series
Rosa Anna Fregola, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, and Ulf HÃ¥lenius
1834
Blue spinel crystals in the MgAl2O4-CoAl2O4 series: Part II. Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales
Ferdinando Bosi, Ulf Hålenius, Veronica D’Ippolito, and Giovanni B. Andreozzi
1849
New structural features of the high-pressure synthetic sheet-disilicate Phase-X, K(2–x)Mg2Si2O7Hx
Mark D. Welch, Jürgen Konzett, Luca Bindi, Simon C. Kohn, and Daniel J. Frost
1858
Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations
Bing Zhou, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Yuanming Pan, Yefeng Yao, Kimberly T. Tait, Brendt C. Hyde, John E.C. Wren, Barbara L. Sherriff, and Scott Kroeker
Supplementary Information and Crystallographic Information Files
AM-12-083.zip zipped
1866
Hydrogen-bond system and dehydration behavior of the natural zeolite parthéite
Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Bernard W. Liebich, and Lukas Perfler
1874
In situ dehydration behavior of zeolite-like cavansite: A single-crystal X-ray study
Rosa Micaela Danisi, Thomas Armbruster, and Biljana Lazic
1891
A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of hambergite, Be2BO3(OH,F)
G. Diego Gatta, Garry J. McIntyre, Geoffrey Bromiley, Alessandro Guastoni, and Fabrizio Nestola
1898
Analyzing water contents in unexposed glass inclusions in quartz crystals
Kenneth S. Befus, James E. Gardner, and Robert W. Zinke
1905
The atomic structure of deuterated boyleite ZnSO4·4D2O, ilesite MnSO4·4D2O, and bianchite ZnSO4·6D2O
Jennifer L. Anderson, Ronald C. Peterson, and Ian Swainson
1939
Structural regularities in 2M1 dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach
Bella B. Zviagina and Victor A. Drits
1998
Edgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4F2-hydroxyledgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4(OH)2, a new series of calcium humite-group minerals from altered xenoliths in the ignimbrite of Upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Viktor M. Gazeev, Roman Włodyka, Mateusz Dulski, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Leonid S. Dubrovinsky
2007
Whelanite, Cu2Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Stefano Merlino, Marco Pasero, Andrew M. McDonald, William B. Wray, and James R. Hindman
2024
Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, and Henrik Skogby
2031
Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup
Frank C. Hawthorne, Roberta Oberti, George E. Harlow, Walter V. Maresch, Robert F. Martin, John C. Schumacher, and Mark D. Welch
2049
First-principles study of self-diffusion and viscous flow in diopside (CaMgSi2O6) liquid
Ashok K. Verma and Bijaya B. Karki
2056
Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zakłodzie meteorite
Chi Ma, John R. Beckett, and George R. Rossman
2060
Mineralogical variation of silica induced by Al and Na in hydrothermal solutions
Hanae Saishu, Atsushi Okamoto, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya
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