American Mineralogist

Volume 105, Issue no. 04 : April 2020

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter

437 Buoyant rise of anorthosite from a layered basic complex triggered by Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Insights from a numerical modeling study
Amal Bikash Mukherjee, Subhasish Das, Dhrubajyoti Sen, and Bikramjit Bhattacharya

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455 Micro- and nano-size hydrogarnet clusters and proton ordering in calcium silicate garnet: Part I. The quest to understand the nature of “water” in garnet continues
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman

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468 Micro- and nano-size hydrogarnet clusters in calcium silicate garnet: Part II. Mineralogical, petrological, and geochemical aspects
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman

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REGULAR ARTICLES

498 Enigmatic diamonds from the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Erik M. Galimov, Felix V. Kaminsky, Svetlana N. Shilobreeva, Vyacheslav S. Sevastyanov, Sergei A. Voropaev, Galina K. Khachatryan, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber, Vladimir V. Saraykin, Gennady A. Karpov, and Leonid P. Anikin

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510 Volcanic SiO2-cristobalite: A natural product of chemical vapor deposition
C. Ian Schipper, William D.A. Rickard, Steven M. Reddy, David W. Saxey, Jonathan M. Castro, Denis Fougerouse, Zakaria Quadir, Chris Conway, David J. Prior, and Kat Lilly

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525 Mg diffusion in forsterite from 1250–1600 °C
Michael C. Jollands, Irina Zhukova, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, and Jörg Hermann

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538 Alteration of magmatic monazite in granitoids from the Ryoke belt (SW Japan): Processes and consequences
Etienne Skrzypek, Shuhei Sakata, and Dominik Sorger

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555 Smamite, Ca2Sb(OH)4[H(AsO4)2]·6H2O, a new mineral and a possible sink for Sb during weathering of fahlore
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Nicolas Meisser, Cédric Lheur, Thierry Brunsperger, and Radek Škoda

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561 The new K, Pb-bearing uranyl-oxide mineral kroupaite: Crystal-chemical implications for the structures of uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrates
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jiří Sejkora, Radek Škoda, Peter C. Burns, and Jiří Čejka

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569 Changes in the cell parameters of antigorite close to its dehydration reaction at subduction zone conditions
Tingting Shen, Cong Zhang, Jing Chen, Jörg Hermann, Lifei Zhang, José Alberto Padrón-Navarta, Li Chen, Jun Xu, and Jingsui Yang

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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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SPECIAL COLLECTION: DYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES

437

Buoyant rise of anorthosite from a layered basic complex triggered by Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Insights from a numerical modeling study
Amal Bikash Mukherjee, Subhasish Das, Dhrubajyoti Sen, and Bikramjit Bhattacharya

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EARTH IN FIVE REACTIONS: A DEEP CARBON PERSPECTIVE

447

Chemically oscillating reactions in the formation of botryoidal malachite
Dominic Papineau

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS

455

Micro- and nano-size hydrogarnet clusters and proton ordering in calcium silicate garnet: Part I. The quest to understand the nature of “water” in garnet continues
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman

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468

Micro- and nano-size hydrogarnet clusters in calcium silicate garnet: Part II. Mineralogical, petrological, and geochemical aspects
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman

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NEW ADVANCES IN SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMA GENESIS

479

Petrogenetic insights from chromite in ultramafic cumulates of the Xiarihamu intrusion, northern Tibet Plateau, China
Xie-Yan Song, Kai-Yuan Wang, Stephen J. Barnes, Jun-Nian Yi, Lie-Meng Chen, and Louise E. Schoneveld

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MEMORIAL

583

Memorial of Edward J. Olsen 1927–2020
Ian Steele and Nancy Hutcheon

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REGULAR ARTICLE

498

Enigmatic diamonds from the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Erik M. Galimov, Felix V. Kaminsky, Svetlana N. Shilobreeva, Vyacheslav S. Sevastyanov, Sergei A. Voropaev, Galina K. Khachatryan, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber, Vladimir V. Saraykin, Gennady A. Karpov, and Leonid P. Anikin

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510

Volcanic SiO2-cristobalite: A natural product of chemical vapor deposition
C. Ian Schipper, William D.A. Rickard, Steven M. Reddy, David W. Saxey, Jonathan M. Castro, Denis Fougerouse, Zakaria Quadir, Chris Conway, David J. Prior, and Kat Lilly

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525

Mg diffusion in forsterite from 1250–1600 °C
Michael C. Jollands, Irina Zhukova, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, and Jörg Hermann

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538

Alteration of magmatic monazite in granitoids from the Ryoke belt (SW Japan): Processes and consequences
Etienne Skrzypek, Shuhei Sakata, and Dominik Sorger

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555

Smamite, Ca2Sb(OH)4[H(AsO4)2]·6H2O, a new mineral and a possible sink for Sb during weathering of fahlore
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Nicolas Meisser, Cédric Lheur, Thierry Brunsperger, and Radek Škoda

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561

The new K, Pb-bearing uranyl-oxide mineral kroupaite: Crystal-chemical implications for the structures of uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrates
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jiří Sejkora, Radek Škoda, Peter C. Burns, and Jiří Čejka

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569

Changes in the cell parameters of antigorite close to its dehydration reaction at subduction zone conditions
Tingting Shen, Cong Zhang, Jing Chen, Jörg Hermann, Lifei Zhang, José Alberto Padrón-Navarta, Li Chen, Jun Xu, and Jingsui Yang

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

468

Micro- and nano-size hydrogarnet clusters in calcium silicate garnet: Part II. Mineralogical, petrological, and geochemical aspects
Charles A. Geiger and George R. Rossman

Item#AM-20-47257
Supplemental Material
AM-20-47257.zip zipped

479

Petrogenetic insights from chromite in ultramafic cumulates of the Xiarihamu intrusion, northern Tibet Plateau, China
Xie-Yan Song, Kai-Yuan Wang, Stephen J. Barnes, Jun-Nian Yi, Lie-Meng Chen, and Louise E. Schoneveld

Item#AM-20-47222
Supplemental Material
AM-20-47222.zip zipped

525

Mg diffusion in forsterite from 1250–1600 °C
Michael C. Jollands, Irina Zhukova, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, and Jörg Hermann

Item#AM-20-47286
Supplemental Material
AM-20-47286.zip zipped

538

Alteration of magmatic monazite in granitoids from the Ryoke belt (SW Japan): Processes and consequences
Etienne Skrzypek, Shuhei Sakata, and Dominik Sorger

Item#AM-20-47025
Supplemental Material
AM-20-47025.zip zipped

555

Smamite, Ca2Sb(OH)4[H(AsO4)2]·6H2O, a new mineral and a possible sink for Sb during weathering of fahlore
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Nicolas Meisser, Cédric Lheur, Thierry Brunsperger, and Radek Škoda

Item#AM-20-47133
Supplemental Material
AM-20-47133.zip zipped

561

The new K, Pb-bearing uranyl-oxide mineral kroupaite: Crystal-chemical implications for the structures of uranyl-oxide hydroxy-hydrates
Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jiří Sejkora, Radek Škoda, Peter C. Burns, and Jiří Čejka

Item#AM-20-47311
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AM-20-47311.zip zipped
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