American Mineralogist
Open AccessLETTER
1345
POLARIO, a computer program for calculating refractive indices from chemical compositions
Reinhard X. Fischer, Manfred Burianek, and Robert D. Shannon
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
1173
Electron channeling to achieve the full potential of mineralogy
Nobuyoshi Miyajima
SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
1176
The inverse problem of unpolarized infrared spectroscopy of geological materials: Estimation from noisy random sampling of a quadratic form
Andrew Jackson, Robert L. Parker, Malcolm Sambridge, Catherine Constable, and Aaron S. Wolf
SPECIAL COLLECTION: PLANETARY PROCESSES AS REVEALED BY SULFIDES AND CHALCOPHILE ELEMENTS
1185
The distribution of lead and thallium in mantle rocks: Insights from the Balmuccia peridotite massif (Italian Alps)
Zaicong Wang, Marina Lazarov, Lena K. Steinmann, Harry Becker, Zongqi Zou, and Xianlei Geng
1200
Sulfide partial melting and chalcopyrite disease: An experimental study
Boddepalli Govindarao, Kamal Lochan Pruseth, and Biswajit Mishra
SPECIAL COLLECTION: APPLICATIONS OF FLUID, MINERAL, AND MELT INCLUSIONS
1208
Nanoscale partitioning of Ru, Ir, and Pt in base-metal sulfides from the Caridad chromite deposit, Cuba
José M. González-Jiménez, Artur Deditius, Fernando Gervilla, Martin Reich, Alexandra Suvorova, Malcolm P. Roberts, Josep Roqué, and Joaquín A. Proenza
SPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE
1221
Stability of Al-bearing superhydrous phase B at the mantle transition zone and the uppermost lower mantle
Sho Kakizawa, Toru Inoue, Hideto Nakano, Minami Kuroda, Naoya Sakamoto, and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
SPECIAL COLLECTION: FROM MAGMAS TO ORE DEPOSITS
1228
Origin of the fluorine- and beryllium-rich rhyolites of the Spor Mountain Formation, Western Utah
Shane R. Dailey, Eric H Christiansen, Michael J. Dorais, Bart J. Kowallis, Diego P. Fernandez, and Douglas M. Johnson
REGULAR ARTICLE
1253
The mantle source of thermal plumes: Trace and minor elements in olivine and major oxides of primitive liquids (and why the olivine compositions don’t matter)
Keith Putirka, Yan Tao, K.R. Hari, Michael R. Perfit, Matthew G. Jackson, and Ricardo Arevalo Jr.
1271
The effects of ferromagnetism and interstitial hydrogen on the equation of states of hcp and dhcp FeHx: Implications for the Earth’s inner core age
Hitoshi Gomi, Yingwei Fei, and Takashi Yoshino
1282
Accurate predictions of microscale oxygen barometry in basaltic glasses using V K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy: A multivariate approach
Antonio Lanzirotti, M. Darby Dyar, Stephen Sutton, Matthew Newville, Elisabet Headad, CJ Carey, Molly McCanta, Lopaka Lee, Penelope L. King, and John Jones
1298
Electrical cell assembly for reproducible conductivity experiments in the multi-anvil
Anne Pommier and Kurt D. Leinenweber
1306
A vibrational spectroscopic study of kernite to 25 GPa: Implications for the high-pressure stability of borate polyhedra
Marcus Silva, Earl F. O’Bannon III, and Quentin Williams
1319
Discreditation of bobdownsite and the establishment of criteria for the identification of minerals with essential monofluorophosphate (PO3F2–)
Francis M. McCubbin, Brian L. Phillips, Christopher T. Adcock, Kimberly T. Tait, Andrew Steele, John S. Vaughn, Marc D. Fries, Viorel Atudorei, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, and Elisabeth M. Hausrath
1329
Adrianite, Ca12(Al4Mg3Si7)O32Cl6, a new Cl-rich silicate mineral from the Allende meteorite: An alteration phase in a Ca-Al-rich inclusion
Chi Ma and Alexander N. Krot
MSA Distinguished Lecturer Series
1335
An accessory mineral and experimental perspective on the evolution of the early crust
Dustin Trail
BOOK REVIEW
1349
BOOK REVIEW
Jonathan D. Price
ERRATUM
1351
ERRATUM
Michael Schindler
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1176
The inverse problem of unpolarized infrared spectroscopy of geological materials: Estimation from noisy random sampling of a quadratic form
Andrew Jackson, Robert L. Parker, Malcolm Sambridge, Catherine Constable, and Aaron S. Wolf
1185
The distribution of lead and thallium in mantle rocks: Insights from the Balmuccia peridotite massif (Italian Alps)
Zaicong Wang, Marina Lazarov, Lena K. Steinmann, Harry Becker, Zongqi Zou, and Xianlei Geng
1200
Sulfide partial melting and chalcopyrite disease: An experimental study
Boddepalli Govindarao, Kamal Lochan Pruseth, and Biswajit Mishra
1208
Nanoscale partitioning of Ru, Ir, and Pt in base-metal sulfides from the Caridad chromite deposit, Cuba
José M. González-Jiménez, Artur Deditius, Fernando Gervilla, Martin Reich, Alexandra Suvorova, Malcolm P. Roberts, Josep Roqué, and Joaquín A. Proenza
1228
Origin of the fluorine- and beryllium-rich rhyolites of the Spor Mountain Formation, Western Utah
Shane R. Dailey, Eric H Christiansen, Michael J. Dorais, Bart J. Kowallis, Diego P. Fernandez, and Douglas M. Johnson
1253
The mantle source of thermal plumes: Trace and minor elements in olivine and major oxides of primitive liquids (and why the olivine compositions don’t matter)
Keith Putirka, Yan Tao, K.R. Hari, Michael R. Perfit, Matthew G. Jackson, and Ricardo Arevalo Jr.
1271
The effects of ferromagnetism and interstitial hydrogen on the equation of states of hcp and dhcp FeHx: Implications for the Earth’s inner core age
Hitoshi Gomi, Yingwei Fei, and Takashi Yoshino
1306
A vibrational spectroscopic study of kernite to 25 GPa: Implications for the high-pressure stability of borate polyhedra
Marcus Silva, Earl F. O’Bannon III, and Quentin Williams
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