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958
Quantum mechanical calculations of dioctahedral 2:1 phyllosilicates: Effect of octahedral cation distributions in pyrophyllite, illite, and smectite
C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz, Vicente Timón, Vicente Botella, Emilio Artacho, and Alfonso Hernández-Laguna
976
Ferripedrizite, a new monoclinic BLi amphibole end-member from the Eastern Pedriza Massif, Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, and a restatement of the nomenclature of Mg-Fe-Mn-Li amphiboles
José M. Caballero, Roberta Oberti, and Luisa Ottolini
983
Description and crystal structure of vajdakite, [(Mo6+O2)2(H2O)2As3+2O5] · H2O – a new mineral from Jáchymov, Czech Republic
Petr Ondruš, Roman Skála, Ivana Císařová, František Veselovský, Jiří Frýda, and Jiří Čejka
1000
Surface reconstruction and As-polymerization at fractured loellingite (FeAs2) surfaces
H.W. Nesbitt, I. Uhlig, and R. Szargan
1005
The strength of moissanite
Jianzhong Zhang, Liping Wang, Donald J. Weidner, Takeyuki Uchida, and Ji-An Xu
1009
Diamond formation through carbonate-silicate interaction
Yuri N. Pal’yanov, Alexander G. Sokol, Yuri M. Borzdov, Alexander F. Khokhryakov, and Nikolay V. Sobolev
1014
Anisotropic Fe-Mg diffusion in biotite
Tadashi Usuki
1018
Characterization of a high-pressure phase of silica from the Martian meteorite Shergotty
Przemyslaw Dera, Charles T. Prewitt, Nabil Z. Boctor, and Russell J. Hemley
REGULAR ARTICLE
805
Thermal equations of state for B1 and B2 KCl
David Walker, Lachlan M.D. Cranswick, Pramod K. Verma, Simon M. Clark, and Stephan Buhre
813
Determination of molar absorptivities for infrared absorption bands of H2O in andesitic glasses
Charles W. Mandeville, James D. Webster, Malcolm J. Rutherford, Bruce E. Taylor, Adrian Timbal, and Kevin Faure
822
H2O activity in H2O-N2 fluids at high pressure and temperature measured by the brucite-periclase equilibrium
Andreas Haefner, Leonid Y. Aranovich, James A.D. Connolly, and Peter Ulmer
829
Kinetics of iron oxidation-reduction in hydrous silicic melts
Fabrice Gaillard, Bruno Scaillet, and Michel Pichavant
838
Kinetics of cation ordering in synthetic MgAl2O4 spinel
Giovanni B. Andreozzi and Francesco Princivalle
845
Structural properties and heat-induced oxidation-dehydrogenation of manganoan ilvaite from Perda Niedda mine, Sardinia, Italy
Paola Bonazzi and Luca Bindi
853
Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part I. Evidence from inclusions of coesite pseudomorphs in garnet and from quartz exsolution lamellae in omphacite in eclogites
Lifei Zhang, David J. Ellis, and Wenbo Jian
861
Ultra-high pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part II. Evidence from magnesite in eclogite
Lifei Zhang, David J. Ellis, Samantha Williams, and Wenbo Jiang
867
Discovery of clinoenstatite in garnet pyroxenites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, east-central China
Ru Y. Zhang, Yen H. Shau, Juhn G. Liou, and Ching H. Lo
875
Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) low-Al titanites from carbonate-bearing rocks in Dabieshan-Sulu UHP terrane, eastern China
Kai Ye, Jing-Bo Liu, Bo-Lin Cong, Da-Nian Ye, Ping Xu, Soichi Omori, and Shigenori Maruyama
882
Metamictization and recrystallization of titanite: An infrared spectroscopic study
Ming Zhang, Ekhard K.H. Salje, Ulrich Bismayer, Lee A. Groat, and Thomas Malcherek
891
Fine structure of infrared OH-stretching bands in natural and heat-treated amphiboles of the tremolite-ferro-actinolite series
Kiyotaka Ishida, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Yumi Ando
899
Correlation between OH concentration and oxygen isotope diffusion rate in diopsides from the Adirondack Mountains, New York
Elizabeth A. Johnson, George R. Rossman, M. Darby Dyar, and John W. Valley
909
The substitution Fe3+-Al and the isosymmetric displacive phase transition in synthetic zoisite: A powder X-ray and infrared spectroscopy study
Axel Liebscher, Matthias Gottschalk, and Gerhard Franz
922
In situ X-ray observation of the reaction dolomite = aragonite + magnesite at 900-1300 K
Miki Shirasaka, Eiichi Takahashi, Yu Nishihara, Kyoko Matsukage, and Takumi Kikegawa
931
High-pressure single-crystal X-ray and powder neutron study of F,OH/OD-chondrodite: Compressibility, structure, and hydrogen bonding
Alexandra Friedrich, George A. Lager, Peter Ulmer, Martin Kunz, and William G. Marshall
940
Quantitative characterization of biotic iron oxides by analytical electron microscopy
D. Mavrocordatos and Danielle Fortin
947
Synthesis and NMR characterization (1H and 31P MAS) of the fluorine-free hydroxylapatite-britholite-(Y) series
Juliette Imbach, Fabrice Brunet, Thibault Charpentier, and Joseph Virlet
966
The nature of disorder in montmorillonite by simulation of X-ray powder patterns
Alberto Viani, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, and Gilberto Artioli
991
Some remarks on fission-track observational biases and crystallographic orientation effects
Rex F. Galbraith
1027
BOOK REVIEW: MINERALOGICAL TABLES by Hugo Strunz and Ernest H. Nickel. E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2002, Stuttgart, Germany (9th edition). 870 p.
Brian Mason
NEW MINERAL NAMES
996
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor and Andrew C. Roberts
MEMORIAL
1024
MEMORIAL: Memorial of Richard Edwin Stoiber, 1911-2001
Stearns A. Morse
BOOK REVIEW
1026
BOOK REVIEW: CRUSTAL HEAT FLOW: A GUIDE TO MEASUREMENT AND MODELING. G.R. Beardsmore and J.P. Cull. Cambridge University Press, 2001, 324 p.
Andrew T. Fisher
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