American Mineralogist
Open AccessLETTER
27
Polytypes and higher-order structures of antigorite: A TEM study
Bernard Grobéty
47
Influence of F content on the composition of Al-rich synthetic phlogopite: Part I. New information on structure and phase-formation from 29Si, 1H, and 19F MAS NMR spectroscopies
Michael Fechtelkord, Harald Behrens, François Holtz, Colin A. Fyfe, Lee A. Groat, and Mati Raudsepp
73
The formation of Sr silicates at low temperature and the solubility product of tobermorite-like Sr5Si6O16(OH)2·5H2O
Andrew R. Felmy, Marvin J. Mason, Paul L. Gassman, and David E. McCready
93
Synthetic MgAl2O4 (spinel) at high-pressure conditions (0.0001—30 GPa): A synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction study
Davide Levy, Alessandro Pavese, and Michael Hanfland
151
Retrograde mineral reactions in saline fluid inclusions: The transformation ferropyrosmalite ↔ clinopyroxene
Peter Kodera, Pamela J. Murphy, and Andrew H. Rankin
211
An X-ray Rietveld, infrared, and Mössbauer spectral study of the NaMn(Fe1-xInx)2(PO4)3 alluaudite-type solid solution
Frédéric Hatert, Raphaël P. Hermann, Gary J. Long, André-Mathieu Fransolet, and Fernande Grandjean
240
The crystal structure of synthetic autunite, Ca[(UO2)(PO4)]2(H2O)11
Andrew J. Locock and Peter C. Burns
REGULAR ARTICLE
1
A molecular dynamics study of the behavior of sodium in low albite
Alberto Alberti, Ettore Fois, and Aldo Gamba
11
Observation and interpretation of paramagnetic defects in Brazilian and Central African carbonados
V.A. Nadolinny, V.S. Shatsky, N.V. Sobolev, D.J. Twitchen, O.P. Yuryeva, I.A. Vasilevsky, and V.N. Lebedev
18
Dissolution of gibbsite: Direct observations using fluid cell atomic force microscopy
Clayton D. Peskleway, Grant S. Henderson, and Fred J. Wicks
37
An infrared spectroscopic study of the basic copper phosphate minerals: Cornetite, libethenite, and pseudomalachite
Wayde Martens and Ray L. Frost
54
NMR evidence for formation of octahedral and tetrahedral Al and repolymerization of the Si network during dissolution of aluminosilicate glass and crystal
Natia Tsomaia, Susan L. Brantley, James P. Hamilton, Carlo G. Pantano, and Karl T. Mueller
68
Thermodynamic properties of hercynite (FeAl2O4) based on adiabatic calorimetry at low temperatures
S. Klemme and J.C. van Miltenburg
80
Thermal equation of state of omphacite
Yu Nishihara, Eiichi Takahashi, Kyoko Matsukage, and Takumi Kikegawa
87
The effect of thermal decarbonation on stable isotope compositions of carbonates
Z.D. Sharp, J.J. Papike, and T. Durakiewicz
99
The stability of antigorite in the systems MgO-SiO2-H2O (MSH) and MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O (MASH): The effects of Al3+ substitution on high-pressure stability
Geoffrey D. Bromiley and Alison R. Pawley
109
The fusion curve of albite revisited and the compressibility of NaAlSi3O8 liquid with pressure
Rebecca A. Lange
121
Correction of secondary X-ray fluorescence near grain boundaries in electron microprobe analysis: Application to thermobarometry of spinel lherzolites
Xavier Llovet and Gumer Galan
131
An overgrowth model to explain multiple, dispersed high-Mn regions in the cores of garnet porphyroblasts
David M. Hirsch, David J. Prior, and William D. Carlson
142
Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of the structure and dehydration behavior of todorokite
Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Jonathan Hanson
159
The effect of ionizing radiation on uranophane
Satoshi Utsunomiya, Lu-Min Wang, Matt Douglas, Susan B. Clark, and Rodney C. Ewing
167
Hydration, expansion, structure, and dynamics of layered double hydroxides
Xiaoqiang Hou, David L. Bish, Shan-Li Wang, Cliff T. Johnston, and R. James Kirkpatrick
180
Relict edenite in a garnet lherzolite from the Chinese Su-Lu UHP metamorphic terrane: Implications for metamorphic history
Jian-Jun Yang
189
Norrishite, K(Mn3+2Li)Si4O10(O)2, an oxymica associated with sugilite from the Wessels Mine, South Africa: Crystal chemistry and 40Ar-39Ar dating
Edwin Gnos, Thomas Armbruster, and Igor M. Villa
195
The amblygonite (LiAlPO4F)-montebrasite (LiAlPO4OH) solid solution: A combined powder and single-crystal neutron diffraction and solid-state 6Li MAS, CP MAS, and REDOR NMR study
Lee A. Groat, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Darren H. Brouwer, Christina M. Hoffman, Colin A. Fyfe, Heiko Morell, and Arthur J. Schultz
223
Gatelite-(Ce), a new REE-bearing mineral from Trimouns, French Pyrenees: Crystal structure and polysomatic relationships with epidote and t??rnebohmite-(Ce)
Paola Bonazzi, Luca Bindi, and Giancarlo Parodi
229
Hydroxyl in clinopyroxene from the deep subducted crust: Evidence for H2O transport into the mantle
Ikuo Katayama and Satoru Nakashima
235
A model for the structure of the hydrated aluminum phosphate, kingite determined by ab initio powder diffraction methods
Kia S. Wallwork, Allan Pring, Max R. Taylor, and Brett A. Hunter
245
Three-dimensional imaging of garnet porphyroblast sizes and chemical zoning: Nucleation and growth history in the garnet zone
Frank S. Spear and Christopher G. Daniel
246
Isotope geochemistry of Proterozoic talc occurrences in Archean marbles of the Ruby Mountains, southwest Montana, U.S.A.
John B. Brady, John T. Cheney, Amy Larson Rhodes, Angela Vasquez, Chris Green, Mathieu Duvall, Ari Kogut, Lewis Kaufman, and Dana Kovaric
247
The American Mineralogist crystal structure database
Robert T. Downs and Michelle Hall-Wallace
NEW MINERAL NAMES
251
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, and Andrew C. Roberts
BOOK REVIEW
256
BOOK REVIEWS: MANTLE CONVECTION IN THE EARTH AND PLANETS, by G. Schubert, D. L. Turcotte, and P. Olson. Cambridge University Press, 2001, 940 p.
Hans-Peter Bunge
TABLE OF CONTENTS
&
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Table of Contents
AmMin submission to acceptance/”first publication” is at a record average of about three to four months. Our acceptance to “final” publication is presently another 13 months on average.
Special Collections
American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.