American Mineralogist

Volume 101, Issue no. 10 : October 2016

Letter

2347 Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite
William E. Glassley, John A. Korstgård, and Kai Sørensen

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2351 Chemical zoning and lattice distortion in uraninite from Olympic Dam, South Australia
Edeltraud Macmillan, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Kathy Ehrig, Nigel J. Cook, and Allan Pring

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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

2168 Association of cumulus apatite with compositionally unusual olivine and plagioclase in the Taihe Fe-Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion: Petrogenetic significance and implications for ore genesis
Zhong-Jie Bai, Hong Zhong, Chusi Li, Wei-Guang Zhu, and Wen-Jun Hu

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2176 Repeated, multiscale, magmatic erosion and recycling in an upper-crustal pluton: Implications for magma chamber dynamics and magma volume estimates
Scott Paterson, Valbone Memeti, Roland Mundil, and Jiří Žák

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2210 Fe-Mg interdiffusion in orthopyroxene
Ralf Dohmen, Jan H. Ter Heege, Hans-Werner Becker, and Sumit Chakraborty

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2222 Error sources in single-clinopyroxene thermobarometry and a mantle geotherm for the Novinka kimberlite, Yakutia
Luca Ziberna, Paolo Nimis, Dmitry Kuzmin, and Vladimir G. Malkovets

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2233 Experimental hydration of natural volcanic clinopyroxene phenocrysts under hydrothermal pressures (0.5–3 kbar)
Franz A. Weis, Roland Stalder, and Henrik Skogby

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REGULAR ARTICLES

2248 Comparison of isoelectric points of single-crystal and polycrystalline α-Al2O3 and α-Fe2O3 surfaces
Yingge Wang, Per Persson, F. Marc Michel, and Gordon E. Brown, Jr.

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2260 Synthetic olivine capsules for use in experiments
William Nash, Duane Smythe, and Bernard J. Wood

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2264 Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE phosphate minerals
David J. Turner, Benoit Rivard, and Lee A. Groat

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2279 Protolith carbon isotope ratios in cordierite from metamorphic and igneous rocks
William H. Peck

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2288 Empirical electronic polarizabilities of ions for the prediction and interpretation of refractive indices: Oxides and oxysalts
Robert D. Shannon and Reinhard X. Fischer

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2301 A novel protocol for resolving feldspar crystals in synchrotron X-ray microtomographic images of crystallized natural magmas and synthetic analogs
Fabio Arzilli, Margherita Polacci, Patrizia Landi, Daniele Giordano, Don R. Baker, and Lucia Mancini

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2312 Silicic lunar volcanism: Testing the crustal melting model
Amber L. Gullikson, Justin J. Hagerty, Mary R. Reid, Jennifer F. Rapp, and David S. Draper

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2322 Transition metals in the transition zone: Crystal chemistry of minor element substitution in wadsleyite
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, Julien Allaz, Takaaki Kawazoe, Steven D. Jacobsen, and Zhenmin Jin

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2331 Experimental evidence of the formation of intermediate phases during transition of kaolinite into metakaolinite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Boris A. Sakharov, and Bella B. Zviagina

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Supplements

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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
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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
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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
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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

2347

Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite
William E. Glassley, John A. Korstgård, and Kai Sørensen

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2351

Chemical zoning and lattice distortion in uraninite from Olympic Dam, South Australia
Edeltraud Macmillan, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Kathy Ehrig, Nigel J. Cook, and Allan Pring

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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE

2133

Temporal histories of Cordilleran continental arcs: Testing models for magmatic episodicity
Moritz Kirsch, Scott R. Paterson, Florian Wobbe, Ana María Martínez Ardila, Benjamin L. Clausen, and Pablo H. Alasino

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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE

2155

Graphite-diamond relations in mantle rocks: Evidence from an eclogitic xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite (Siberian Craton)
Denis S. Mikhailenko, Andrey V. Korsakov, Pavel S. Zelenovskiy, and Alexander V. Golovin

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: FROM MAGMAS TO ORE DEPOSITS

2168

Association of cumulus apatite with compositionally unusual olivine and plagioclase in the Taihe Fe-Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion: Petrogenetic significance and implications for ore genesis
Zhong-Jie Bai, Hong Zhong, Chusi Li, Wei-Guang Zhu, and Wen-Jun Hu

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CRUSTAL MAGMAS

2176

Repeated, multiscale, magmatic erosion and recycling in an upper-crustal pluton: Implications for magma chamber dynamics and magma volume estimates
Scott Paterson, Valbone Memeti, Roland Mundil, and Jiří Žák

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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST

2199

A new experimental approach to study fluid–rock equilibria at the slab-mantle interface based on the synthetic fluid inclusion technique
Alexandra Tsay, Zoltan Zajacz, Peter Ulmer, Markus Waelle, and Carmen Sanchez-Valle

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

2210

Fe-Mg interdiffusion in orthopyroxene
Ralf Dohmen, Jan H. Ter Heege, Hans-Werner Becker, and Sumit Chakraborty

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: RATES AND DEPTHS OF MAGMA ASCENT ON EARTH

2222

Error sources in single-clinopyroxene thermobarometry and a mantle geotherm for the Novinka kimberlite, Yakutia
Luca Ziberna, Paolo Nimis, Dmitry Kuzmin, and Vladimir G. Malkovets

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS

2233

Experimental hydration of natural volcanic clinopyroxene phenocrysts under hydrothermal pressures (0.5–3 kbar)
Franz A. Weis, Roland Stalder, and Henrik Skogby

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REGULAR ARTICLE

2248

Comparison of isoelectric points of single-crystal and polycrystalline α-Al2O3 and α-Fe2O3 surfaces
Yingge Wang, Per Persson, F. Marc Michel, and Gordon E. Brown, Jr.

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2260

Synthetic olivine capsules for use in experiments
William Nash, Duane Smythe, and Bernard J. Wood

Open Access

2264

Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE phosphate minerals
David J. Turner, Benoit Rivard, and Lee A. Groat

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2279

Protolith carbon isotope ratios in cordierite from metamorphic and igneous rocks
William H. Peck

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2288

Empirical electronic polarizabilities of ions for the prediction and interpretation of refractive indices: Oxides and oxysalts
Robert D. Shannon and Reinhard X. Fischer

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2301

A novel protocol for resolving feldspar crystals in synchrotron X-ray microtomographic images of crystallized natural magmas and synthetic analogs
Fabio Arzilli, Margherita Polacci, Patrizia Landi, Daniele Giordano, Don R. Baker, and Lucia Mancini

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2312

Silicic lunar volcanism: Testing the crustal melting model
Amber L. Gullikson, Justin J. Hagerty, Mary R. Reid, Jennifer F. Rapp, and David S. Draper

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2322

Transition metals in the transition zone: Crystal chemistry of minor element substitution in wadsleyite
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, Julien Allaz, Takaaki Kawazoe, Steven D. Jacobsen, and Zhenmin Jin

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2331

Experimental evidence of the formation of intermediate phases during transition of kaolinite into metakaolinite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Boris A. Sakharov, and Bella B. Zviagina

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

2355

NEW MINERAL NAMES

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BOOK REVIEW

2361

BOOK REVIEW
Michael W. Foerster

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2363

BOOK REVIEW
James A. Saunders

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

2133

Temporal histories of Cordilleran continental arcs: Testing models for magmatic episodicity
Moritz Kirsch, Scott R. Paterson, Florian Wobbe, Ana María Martínez Ardila, Benjamin L. Clausen, and Pablo H. Alasino

Item#AM-16-105718
Appendix: Data references
AM-16-105718.zip zipped

2168

Association of cumulus apatite with compositionally unusual olivine and plagioclase in the Taihe Fe-Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion: Petrogenetic significance and implications for ore genesis
Zhong-Jie Bai, Hong Zhong, Chusi Li, Wei-Guang Zhu, and Wen-Jun Hu

Item#AM-16-105577
Supplemental Material
AM-16-105577.zip zipped

2222

Error sources in single-clinopyroxene thermobarometry and a mantle geotherm for the Novinka kimberlite, Yakutia
Luca Ziberna, Paolo Nimis, Dmitry Kuzmin, and Vladimir G. Malkovets

Item#AM-16-105540
Supplemental Tables and Appendix
AM-16-105540.zip zipped

2233

Experimental hydration of natural volcanic clinopyroxene phenocrysts under hydrothermal pressures (0.5–3 kbar)
Franz A. Weis, Roland Stalder, and Henrik Skogby

Item#AM-16-105711
Supplemental Material
AM-16-105711.zip zipped

2288

Empirical electronic polarizabilities of ions for the prediction and interpretation of refractive indices: Oxides and oxysalts
Robert D. Shannon and Reinhard X. Fischer

Item#AM-16-105730
Supplemental Material with Appendix Table 1 and Tables 3 and 8
AM-16-105730.zip zipped

2312

Silicic lunar volcanism: Testing the crustal melting model
Amber L. Gullikson, Justin J. Hagerty, Mary R. Reid, Jennifer F. Rapp, and David S. Draper

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Appendice
AM-16-105619.zip zipped

2322

Transition metals in the transition zone: Crystal chemistry of minor element substitution in wadsleyite
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, Julien Allaz, Takaaki Kawazoe, Steven D. Jacobsen, and Zhenmin Jin

Item#AM-16-105681
CIF
AM-16-105681.zip zipped

2347

Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite
William E. Glassley, John A. Korstgård, and Kai Sørensen

Item#AM-16-105899
Supplemental Material
AM-16-105899.zip zipped

2351

Chemical zoning and lattice distortion in uraninite from Olympic Dam, South Australia
Edeltraud Macmillan, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Kathy Ehrig, Nigel J. Cook, and Allan Pring

Item#AM-16-105753
Supplemental Material
AM-16-105753.zip zipped
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