American Mineralogist
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Atomic-scale observations of franckeite surface morphology
René B. Henriksen, Emil Makovicky, S.L.S. Stipp, Camilla Nissen, and Carrick M. Eggleston
1286
First-principles calculation of the infrared spectrum of lizardite
Etienne Balan, A. Marco Saitta, Francesco Mauri, Céline Lemaire, and François Guyot
1297
Spectroscopic studies of spessartine from Brazilian pegmatites
Sigrid G. Eeckhout, Cristiane Castañeda, Ana Cláudia M. Ferreira, Antônio C.S. Sabioni, Eddy de Grave, and Daniela C.L. Vasconcelos
1307
Order/disorder in natrolite group zeolites: A 29Si and 27Al MAS NMR study
Philip S. Neuhoff, Scott Kroeker, Lin-Shu Du, Thráinn Fridriksson, and Jonathan F. Stebbins
1437
Crystal chemistry of three tourmalines by SREF, EMPA, and SIMS
Fernando Cámara, Luisa Ottolini, and Frank C. Hawthorne
1443
Revised structure models for antigorite: An HRTEM study
István Dódony, Mihály Pósfai, and Peter R. Buseck
1458
The structure of Mn-rich tuperssuatsiaite: A palygorskite-related mineral
Fernando Cámara, Laurence A.J. Garvie, Bertrand Devouard, Thomas L. Groy, and Peter R. Buseck
1464
Single-crystal structure refinements and crystal chemistry of synthetic trioctahedral micas KM3(Al3+,Si4+)4O10(OH)2, where M = Ni2+, Mg2+, Co2+, Fe2+, or Al3+
Günther J. Redhammer and Georg Roth
1477
SIMS matrix effects in the analysis of light elements in silicate minerals: Comparison with SREF and EMPA data
Luisa Ottolini, Fernando Cámara, Frank C. Hawthorne, and John Stirling
1486
Equation of state of Al-bearing stishovite to 40 GPa at 300 K
Shigeaki Ono, Takuma Suto, Kei Hirose, Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Tetsuya Komabayashi, and Takumi Kikegawa
1490
Order parameter behavior at the structural phase transition in cummingtonite from M??ssbauer spectroscopy
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Catherine A. McCammon, and Michael A. Carpenter
1494
Deciphering Ni sequestration in soil ferromanganese nodules by combining X-ray fluorescence, absorption, and diffraction at micrometer scales of resolution
Alain Manceau, Nobumichi Tamura, Matthew A. Marcus, Alastair A. MacDowell, Richard S. Celestre, Robert E. Sublett, Garrison Sposito, and Howard A. Padmore
1500
Use of the spindle stage for orientation of single crystals for microXAS: Isotropy and anisotropy in Fe-XANES spectra
M. Darby Dyar, Mickey E. Gunter, Jeremy S. Delaney, Antonio Lanzirotti, and Stephen R. Sutton
1505
A technique for mounting and polishing melt inclusions in small (<1 mm) crystals
Jay B. Thomas and Robert J. Bodnar
REGULAR ARTICLE
1279
Surface control vs. diffusion control during calcite dissolution: Dependence of step-edge velocity upon solution pH
Giovanni De Giudici
1291
Hard-mode infrared spectroscopy of perovskites across the CaTiO3-SrTiO3 solid solution
Hinrich-Wilhelm Meyer, Michael A. Carpenter, Ana I. Becerro, and Fritz Seifert
1321
Evolution of local electronic structure in alabandite and niningerite solid solutions [(Mn,Fe)S, (Mg,Mn)S, (Mg,Fe)S] using sulfur K– and L-edge XANES spectroscopy
Shannon P. Farrell, Michael E. Fleet, Ilia E. Stekhin, Antonina Kravtsova, Alexander V. Soldatov, and Xiaoyang Liu
1333
Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of synthetic fluorapatite: Part III. Structural characterization of sub-ppm-level Gd and Mn in minerals at W-band frequency
Yuanming Pan, Ning Chen, John A. Weil, and Mark J. Nilges
1342
Experimental determination of the equilibria: rutile + magnesite = geikielite + CO2 and zircon + 2 magnesite = baddeleyite + forsterite + 2 CO2
John M. Ferry, Robert C. Newton, and Craig E. Manning
1351
Symplectites derived from metastable phases in martian basaltic meteorites
Carolyn J. Aramovich, Christopher D. K. Herd, and James J. Papike
1360
Copper speciation in vapor-phase fluid inclusions from the Mole Granite, Australia
John A. Mavrogenes, Andrew J. Berry, Matthew Newville, and Stephen R. Sutton
1365
Trace-element partitioning between vacancy-rich eclogitic clinopyroxene and silicate melt
Maik Pertermann and Marc M. Hirschmann
1377
Fluorite particles inducing butterfly aggregates of incipient microperthite in alkali feldspar from a syenite, the Patagonian Andes, southern Chile
Satoshi Nakano, Junji Akai, and Asahiko Sugaki
1384
Thermal stability and spectroscopic studies of zemkorite: A carbonate from the Venkatampalle kimberlite of southern India
G. Parthasarathy, T.R.K. Chetty, and S.E. Haggerty
1390
Temperatures from triple-junction angles in sulfides
John Lusk, Brian O.E. Calder, and Terence E. Freeman
1401
Experimental determination of calcite solubility in H2O-NaCl solutions at deep crust/upper mantle pressures and temperatures: Implications for metasomatic processes in shear zones
Robert C. Newton and Craig E. Manning
1410
Compressibility of stottite, FeGe(OH)6: An octahedral framework with protonated O atoms
Nancy L. Ross, Tracey D. Chaplin, and Mark D. Welch
1415
High-pressure behavior of bikitaite: An integrated theoretical and experimental approach
Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, Ettore Fois, Aldo Gamba, and Gloria Tabacchi
1426
Raman spectroscopic study of H2O in bikitaite: “One-dimensional ice”
Boris A. Kolesov and Charles A. Geiger
1432
Hydrogen, lithium, and boron in mantle-derived olivine: The role of coupled substitutions
Adam J.R. Kent and George R. Rossman
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, Edward S. Grew, And Andrew C. Roberts
MEMORIAL
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Memorial for Shigeho Sueno, 1937-2001
Charles T. Prewitt, James J. Papike, and Gordon E. Brown Jr
BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW: MINERALS OF THE WORLD by Ole Johnsen. Princeton University Press, 2002, 440p.
Anthony R. Kampf
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