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Closure in crystal size distributions (CSD), verification of CSD calculations, and the significance of CSD fans
Michael D. Higgins
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Icosahedral domain structure of framboidal pyrite
Hiroaki Ohfuji and Junji Akai
REGULAR ARTICLE
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Study on adsorption of submicrometer gold on kaolinite by quantum chemistry calculations
Hong Hanlie, Min Xinmin, and Fu Zhengyi
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Image distortion in scanning probe microscopy
K. Henriksen and S.L.S. Stipp
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Multiple length scale growth spirals on metamorphic graphite {001} surfaces studied by atomic force microscopy
John Rakovan and John A. Jaszczak
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29Si MAS NMR study of diopside-Ca-Tschermak clinopyroxenes: Detecting both tetrahedral and octahedral Al substitution
Roberta L. Flemming and Robert W. Luth
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Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of synthetic fluorapatite: Part I. Local structural environment and substitution mechanism of Gd3+ at the Ca2 site
Ning Chen, Yuanming Pan, and John A. Weil
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Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of synthetic fluorapatite: Part II. Gd3+ at the Ca1 site, with a neighboring Ca2 vacancy
Ning Chen, Yuanming Pan, John A. Weil, and Mark J. Nilges
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Determination of the H3BO3 concentration in fluid and melt inclusions in granite pegmatites by laser Raman microprobe spectroscopy
Rainer Thomas
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Analysis of natural H2O + CO2 + NaCl fluid inclusions in the hydrothermal diamond anvil cell
Robert S. Darling and William A. Bassett
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Thermodynamics of the amphiboles: Ca-Mg-Fe2+ quadrilateral
Mark S. Ghiorso and Bernard W. Evans
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Phase boundary between rutile-type and CaCl2-type germanium dioxide determined by in situ X-ray observations
Shigeaki Ono, Kei Hirose, Norimasa Nishiyama, and Maiko Isshiki
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The nature, formation, and stability of end-member illite: A hypothesis
Philip E. Rosenberg
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Determination of melanterite-rozenite and chalcanthite-bonattite equilibria by humidity measurements at 0.1 MPa
I-Ming Chou, R.R. Seal II, and B.S. Hemingway
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Pressure-temperature paths from garnet-zoning: Evidence for multiple episodes of thrust burial in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt
Thomas D. Hoisch, Michael L. Wells, and Lori M. Hanson
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Mineralogical and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of a diopside occurring in the marbles of Andranondambo, southern Madagascar
Johan de Grave, Paul de Paepe, Eddy de Grave, Renaud Vochten, and Sigrid G. Eeckhout
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Correlations of octahedral cations with OH–, O2-, Cl–, and F– in biotite from volcanic rocks and xenoliths
Kevin Righter, M. Darby Dyar, Jeremy S. Delaney, Torsten W. Vennemann, Richard L. Hervig, and Penelope L. King
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H positions in leucophoenicite, Mn7Si3O12(OH)2: A close relative of the hydrous B phases
Mark D. Welch, William G. Marshall, Nancy L. Ross, and Kevin S. Knight
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Ominelite, (Fe,Mg)Al3BSiO9 (Fe2+ analogue of grandidierite), a new mineral from porphyritic granite in Japan
Yoshikuni Hiroi, Edward S. Grew, Yoichi Motoyoshi, Donald R. Peacor, Roland C. Rouse, Satoshi Matsubara, Kazumi Yokoyama, Ritsuro Miyawaki, James J. McGee, Shu-Chun Su, Tomokazu Hokada, Noboru Furukawa, and Hiroshi Shibasaki
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, Edward S. Grew and Andrew C. Roberts
ERRATA
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ERRATUM: Description and crystal structure of turtmannite, a new mineral with a 68 Å period related to mcgovernite by Joël Brugger, Thomas Armbruster, Nicolas Meisser, Clivia Hejny, and Bernard Grobety (v. 86, pages 1494-1505, 2001).
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