American Mineralogist
LETTER
2433
Steinhardtite, a new body-centered-cubic allotropic form of aluminum from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Glenn J. MacPherson, Gerald R. Poirier, Christopher L. Andronicos, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, William M. Steinhardt and Marina Yudovskaya
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
2161
Merrillite and apatite as recorders of planetary magmatic processes
Brad Jolliff
2163
Comparing clays from Mars and Earth: Implications for martian habitability
John Bridges
OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
2165
Data-driven abductive discovery in mineralogy
Robert M. Hazen
MINERALS IN THE HUMAN BODY
2171
Thermal expansion of fluorapatite-hydroxylapatite crystalline solutions
Guy L. Hovis, Brian T. Scott, Caitlin M. Altomare, Amanda R. Leaman, Matthew D. Morris, Gary P. Tomaino and Francis M. McCubbin
2176
Synthesis and structure of carbonated barium and lead fluorapatites: Effect of cation size on A-type carbonate substitution
Zachary Wilt, Caitlyn Fuller, Taia Bachman, Victoria Weidner, Jill D. Pasteris and Claude H. Yoder
SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
2187
Optical absorption spectroscopy study of the causes for color variations in natural Fe-bearing gahnite: Insights from iron valency and site distribution data
Rosa Anna Fregola, Henrik Skogby, Ferdinando Bosi, Veronica D’Ippolito, Giovanni B. Andreozzi and Ulf Hålenius
2196
Si-magnetite nano-precipitates in silician magnetite from banded iron formation: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study
Huifang Xu, Zhizhang Shen and Hiromi Konishi
2203
Ordering kinetics in synthetic Mg(Al,Fe3+)2O4 spinels: Quantitative elucidation of the whole Al-Mg-Fe partitioning, rate constants, activation energies
Filippo Parisi, Davide Lenaz, Francesco Princivalle and Luciana Sciascia
SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
2211
Experimental study of phlogopite reaction rim formation on olivine in phonolite melts: Kinetics, reaction rates, and residence times
Thomas Bartholomew Grant, Ralf Milke, Bernd Wunder, Richard Wirth and Dieter Rhede
WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
2227
Etch-pit size, dissolution rate, and time in the experimental dissolution of olivine: Implications for estimating olivine lifetime at the surface of Mars
Michael A. Velbel
2234
Ferrian saponite from the Santa Monica Mountains (California, U.S.A., Earth): Characterization as an analog for clay minerals on Mars with application to Yellowknife Bay in Gale Crater
Allan H. Treiman, Richard V. Morris, David G. Agresti, Trevor G. Graff, Cherie N. Achilles, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Thomas F. Bristow, Douglas W. Ming, David F. Blake, David T. Vaniman, David L. Bish, Steve J. Chipera, Shaunna M. Morrison and Robert T. Downs
THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS
2251
A large spectral survey of small lunar craters: Implications for the composition of the lunar mantle
Paul G. Lucey, Jessica A. Norman, Sarah T. Crites, G. Jeffrey Taylor, B. Ray Hawke, Myriam Lemelin and H. Jay Melosh
REGULAR ARTICLE
2258
In-situ characterization of oxalic acid breakdown at elevated P and T: Implications for organic C-O-H fluid sources in petrologic experiments
Francis M. McCubbin, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, Andrew Steele and Bjorn O. Mysen
2272
Slawsonite-celsian-hyalophane assemblage from a picrite sill (Prague Basin, Czech Republic)
Zuzana Tasáryová, Jiřà Fr.da, Vojtĕch Janoušek and Martin Racek
2280
Determining hematite content from NUV/Vis/NIR spectra: Limits of detection
William Balsam, Junfeng Ji, Devon Renock, Bobby C. Deaton and Earle Williams
2292
The role of water in generation of group II kimberlite magmas: Constraints from multiple saturation experiments
Alexander G. Sokol, Alexey N. Kruk and Yury N. Palyanov
2303
Quantum mechanical modeling of hydrolysis and H2O-exchange in Mg-, Ca-, and Ni-silicate clusters: Implications for dissolution mechanisms of olivine minerals
Christin P. Morrow, Amanda A. Olsen and James D. Kubicki
2313
Redox-driven exsolution of iron-titanium oxides in magnetite in Miller Range (MIL) 03346 nakhlite: Evidence for post crystallization oxidation in the nakhlite cumulate pile?
Kevin Righter, Lindsay P. Keller, Zia Rahman and Roy Christoffersen
2320
Energetics of lanthanide-doped calcium phosphate apatite
S. Mahboobeh Hosseini, Christophe Drouet, Ahmed Al-Kattan and Alexandra Navrotsky
2328
Thermal conductivity of molten and glassy NaAlSi3O8, CaMgSi2O6, and Mg2SiO4 by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics at elevated temperature and pressure
Dane Tikunoff and Frank J. Spera
2337
Energetics of heterometal substitution in ε-Keggin [MO4Al12(OH)24(OH2)12]6/7/8+ ions
Dana Reusser, William H. Casey and Alexandra Navrotsky
2344
Ab initio calculations of elastic constants of plagioclase feldspars
Pamela Kaercher, Burkhard Militzer and Hans-Rudolf Wenk
2353
Diagenetic formation of interlayer-deficient fluorophlogopite as a clay mineral in Early Cambrian phosphorite (Lesser Himalaya, India): The trioctahedral analog of illite
Gerhard Franz, Dorothee Hippler, Dieter Rhede, Richard Wirth, Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee and Nicolaj Mahlstedt
2369
Natural sepiolite: Enthalpies of dehydration, dehydroxylation, and formation derived from thermochemical studies
Lyubov P. Ogorodova, Irina A. Kiseleva, Marina F. Vigasina, Yurii K. Kabalov, Roman O. Grishchenko and Lyubov V. Mel’chakova
2374
A new interpretation of decomposition products of serpentine under shock compression
Youjun Zhang, Toshimori Sekine and Hongliang He
2378
A model for calculating the viscosity of natural iron-bearing silicate melts over a wide range of temperatures, pressures, oxygen fugacites, and compositions
Xianzhe Duan
2389
The replacement of chalcopyrite by bornite under hydrothermal conditions
Jing Zhao, Joël Brugger, Yung Ngothai and Allan Pring
2398
Characterization of porosity in sulfide ore minerals: A USANS/SANS study
Fang Xia, Jing Zhao, Barbara E. Etschmann, Joël Brugger, Christopher J. Garvey, Christine Rehm, Hartmut Lemmel, Jan Ilavsky, Young-Soo Han and Allan Pring
2405
Synthesis of a quenchable high-pressure form of magnetite (h-Fe3O4) with composition Fe1(Fe2+0.75Mg0.26)Fe2(Fe3+0.70Cr0.15Al0.11Si0.04)2O4
Monika Koch-Müller, Enrico Mugnaioli, Dieter Rhede, Sergio Speziale, Ute Kolb and Richard Wirth
2416
High-pressure elasticity of sodium majorite garnet, Na2MgSi5O12
Mainak Mookherjee
2424
Armstrongite from Khan Bogdo (Mongolia): Crystal structure determination and implications for zeolite-like cation exchange properties
Ernesto Mesto, Ekaterina Kaneva, Emanuela Schingaro, Nikolay Vladykin, Maria Lacalamita and Fernando Scordari
NEW MINERALS
2437
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Fernando Cámara, Olivier C. Gagne, Yulia Uvarova and Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy
BOOK REVIEW
2445
Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Materials Sciences
Rachel L. Klima
DEPOSIT ITEMS
2187
Optical absorption spectroscopy study of the causes for color variations in natural Fe-bearing gahnite: Insights from iron valency and site distribution data
Rosa Anna Fregola, Henrik Skogby, Ferdinando Bosi, Veronica D’Ippolito, Giovanni B. Andreozzi and Ulf Hålenius
2196
Si-magnetite nano-precipitates in silician magnetite from banded iron formation: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study
Huifang Xu, Zhizhang Shen and Hiromi Konishi
2203
Ordering kinetics in synthetic Mg(Al,Fe3+)2O4 spinels: Quantitative elucidation of the whole Al-Mg-Fe partitioning, rate constants, activation energies
Filippo Parisi, Davide Lenaz, Francesco Princivalle and Luciana Sciascia
2227
Etch-pit size, dissolution rate, and time in the experimental dissolution of olivine: Implications for estimating olivine lifetime at the surface of Mars
Michael A. Velbel
2251
A large spectral survey of small lunar craters: Implications for the composition of the lunar mantle
Paul G. Lucey, Jessica A. Norman, Sarah T. Crites, G. Jeffrey Taylor, B. Ray Hawke, Myriam Lemelin and H. Jay Melosh
2272
Slawsonite-celsian-hyalophane assemblage from a picrite sill (Prague Basin, Czech Republic)
Zuzana Tasáryová, Jiřà Fr.da, Vojtĕch Janoušek and Martin Racek
2337
Energetics of heterometal substitution in ε-Keggin [MO4Al12(OH)24(OH2)12]6/7/8+ ions
Dana Reusser, William H. Casey and Alexandra Navrotsky
2353
Diagenetic formation of interlayer-deficient fluorophlogopite as a clay mineral in Early Cambrian phosphorite (Lesser Himalaya, India): The trioctahedral analog of illite
Gerhard Franz, Dorothee Hippler, Dieter Rhede, Richard Wirth, Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee and Nicolaj Mahlstedt
2378
A model for calculating the viscosity of natural iron-bearing silicate melts over a wide range of temperatures, pressures, oxygen fugacites, and compositions
Xianzhe Duan
2405
Synthesis of a quenchable high-pressure form of magnetite (h-Fe3O4) with composition Fe1(Fe2+0.75Mg0.26)Fe2(Fe3+0.70Cr0.15Al0.11Si0.04)2O4
Monika Koch-Müller, Enrico Mugnaioli, Dieter Rhede, Sergio Speziale, Ute Kolb and Richard Wirth
2416
High-pressure elasticity of sodium majorite garnet, Na2MgSi5O12
Mainak Mookherjee
2433
Steinhardtite, a new body-centered-cubic allotropic form of aluminum from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Glenn J. MacPherson, Gerald R. Poirier, Christopher L. Andronicos, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, William M. Steinhardt and Marina Yudovskaya
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