American Mineralogist
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Why natural monazite never becomes amorphous: Experimental evidence for alpha self-healing
Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume, Xavier Deschanels, Cédric Baumier, Stefan Neumeier, William John Weber, and Sylvain Peuget
SPECIAL COLLECTION: BIOMATERIALS–MINERALOGY MEETS MEDICINE
665
Biosilica as a source for inspiration in biological materials science
Marcin Wysokowski, Teofil Jesionowski, and Hermann Ehrlich
SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
692
Ab initio study of water speciation in forsterite: Importance of the entropic effect
Tian Qin, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Koichiro Umemoto, Marc M. Hirschmann, and David L. Kohlstedt
SPECIAL COLLECTION: MICROPOROUS MATERIALS: CRYSTAL-CHEMISTRY, PROPERTIES, AND UTILIZATIONS
700
Surface-modified phillipsite-rich tuff from the Campania region (southern Italy) as a promising drug carrier: An ibuprofen sodium salt trial
Mariano Mercurio, Francesco Izzo, Alessio Langella, Celestino Grifa, Chiara Germinario, Aleksandra Daković, Paolo Aprea, Rossana Pasquino, Piergiulio Cappelletti, Fabio Sossio Graziano, and Bruno de Gennaro
REGULAR ARTICLE
711
Structure of low-order hemimorphite produced in a Zn-rich environment by cyanobacterium Leptolingbya frigida
Daniela Medas, Carlo Meneghini, Francesca Podda, Costantino Floris, Mariano Casu, Maria Antonietta Casu, Elodia Musu, and Giovanni De Giudici
720
Formation of dolomite catalyzed by sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Mineralogical and geochemical evidence from the northern South China Sea
Yang Lu, Xiaoming Sun, Huifang Xu, Hiromi Konishi, Zhiyong Lin, Li Xu, Tingting Chen, Xinrong Hao, Hongfeng Lu, and Jörn Peckmann
735
Anisotropic growth of olivine during crystallization in basalts from Hawaii: Implications for olivine fabric development
Da-Peng Wen, Yong-Feng Wang, Jun-Feng Zhang, and Zhen-Min Jin
742
Melting experiments on Fe–Si–S alloys to core pressures: Silicon in the core?
Shigehiko Tateno, Kei Hirose, Ryosuke Sinmyo, Guillaume Morard, Naohisa Hirao, and Yasuo Ohishi
749
High-pressure phase behavior and equations of state of ThO2 polymorphs
Bethany A. Chidester, Olivia S. Pardo, Rebecca A. Fischer, Elizabeth C. Thompson, Dion L. Heinz, Clemens Prescher, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Andrew J. Campbell
757
Mafic inputs into the rhyolitic magmatic system of the 2.08 Ma Huckleberry Ridge eruption, Yellowstone
Elliot J. Swallow, Colin J.N. Wilson, Bruce L.A. Charlier, and John A. Gamble
776
Toward the wider application of 29Si NMR spectroscopy to paramagnetic transition metal silicate minerals and glasses: Fe(II), Co(II), and Ni(II) silicates
Jonathan F. Stebbins, Ryan J. McCarty, and Aaron C. Palke
792
Equations of state and phase boundary for stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2
Rebecca A. Fischer, Andrew J. Campbell, Bethany A. Chidester, Daniel M. Reaman, Elizabeth C. Thompson, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Jesse S. Smith
803
Insight on gem opal formation in volcanic ash deposits from a supereruption: A case study through oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition of opals from Lake Tecopa, California, U.S.A.
Erwan Martin and Eloïse Gaillou
812
Revisiting the crystal structure of dickite: X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR, and DFT calculations study
João Rocha, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Mariana Sardo, and Luís Mafra
819
Temperature and pressure effects on the partitioning of V and Sc between clinopyroxene and silicate melt: Implications for mantle oxygen fugacity
Yuan Li
NEW MINERAL NAMES
828
NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
836
BOOK REVIEW
Alexander Wilson
DEPOSIT ITEMS
692
Ab initio study of water speciation in forsterite: Importance of the entropic effect
Tian Qin, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Koichiro Umemoto, Marc M. Hirschmann, and David L. Kohlstedt
711
Structure of low-order hemimorphite produced in a Zn-rich environment by cyanobacterium Leptolingbya frigida
Daniela Medas, Carlo Meneghini, Francesca Podda, Costantino Floris, Mariano Casu, Maria Antonietta Casu, Elodia Musu, and Giovanni De Giudici
720
Formation of dolomite catalyzed by sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Mineralogical and geochemical evidence from the northern South China Sea
Yang Lu, Xiaoming Sun, Huifang Xu, Hiromi Konishi, Zhiyong Lin, Li Xu, Tingting Chen, Xinrong Hao, Hongfeng Lu, and Jörn Peckmann
735
Anisotropic growth of olivine during crystallization in basalts from Hawaii: Implications for olivine fabric development
Da-Peng Wen, Yong-Feng Wang, Jun-Feng Zhang, and Zhen-Min Jin
749
High-pressure phase behavior and equations of state of ThO2 polymorphs
Bethany A. Chidester, Olivia S. Pardo, Rebecca A. Fischer, Elizabeth C. Thompson, Dion L. Heinz, Clemens Prescher, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Andrew J. Campbell
757
Mafic inputs into the rhyolitic magmatic system of the 2.08 Ma Huckleberry Ridge eruption, Yellowstone
Elliot J. Swallow, Colin J.N. Wilson, Bruce L.A. Charlier, and John A. Gamble
792
Equations of state and phase boundary for stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2
Rebecca A. Fischer, Andrew J. Campbell, Bethany A. Chidester, Daniel M. Reaman, Elizabeth C. Thompson, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Jesse S. Smith
812
Revisiting the crystal structure of dickite: X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR, and DFT calculations study
João Rocha, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Mariana Sardo, and Luís Mafra
824
Why natural monazite never becomes amorphous: Experimental evidence for alpha self-healing
Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume, Xavier Deschanels, Cédric Baumier, Stefan Neumeier, William John Weber, and Sylvain Peuget
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