American Mineralogist

Volume 89, Issue no. 01 : January 2004

Letter

239 Novel phase transition in orthoenstatite
Jennifer M. Jackson, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Michael A. Carpenter, and Jay D. Bass

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245 In situ observation of the thermal decomposition of weddelite by heating stage environmental scanning electron microscopy
J. Theo Kloprogge, Thor E. Bostr??m, and Matt L. Weier

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MSA Presidential Address

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

1 Indialite in xenolithic rocks from Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Southern Italy): Crystal chemistry and petrogenetic features
Giuseppina Balassone, Enrico Franco, Carlo Andrea Mattia, and Raffaella Puliti

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7 Coexisting chromian omphacite and diopside in tremolite schist from the Chugoku Mountains, SW Japan: The effect of Cr on the omphacite-diopside immiscibility gap
Tatsuki Tsujimori and Juhn G. Liou

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15 2111 biopyribole intermediate between pyroxene and amphibole: Artifact or natural product?
Hiromi Konishi, Reijo Alviola, and Peter R. Buseck

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20 Coexisting clinopyroxene/spinel and amphibole/spinel symplectites in metatroctolites from the Buck Creek ultramafic body, North Carolina Blue Ridge
Helen M. Lang, Aletha J. Wachter, Virginia L. Peterson, and Jeffrey G. Ryan

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31 The T-X dependence of the isosymmetric displacive phase transition in synthetic Fe3+-Al zoisite: A temperature-dependent infrared spectroscopy study
Axel Liebscher and Matthias Gottschalk

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39 A kinetic study of the exsolution of pentlandite (Ni,Fe)9S8 from the monosulfide solid solution (Fe,Ni)S
Barbara Etschmann, Allan Pring, Andrew Putnis, Benjamin A. Grguric, and Andrew Studer

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51 Single-crystal plagioclase feldspar dissolution rates measured by vertical scanning interferometry
Rolf S. Arvidson, Mikala S. Beig, and Andreas Luttge

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57 A simple empirical method for high-quality electron microprobe analysis of fluorine at trace levels in Fe-bearing minerals and glasses
Jeffrey B. Witter and Scott M. Kuehner

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64 Constraints on mingling of crystal populations from off-center zoning profiles: A statistical approach
Glen S. Wallace and George W. Bergantz

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74 Pyribole evolution during tremolite synthesis from oxides
Krassimir N. Bozhilov, David M. Jenkins, and David R. Veblen

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85 Solution calorimetric determination of the enthalpies of formation of NH4-bearing minerals buddingtonite and tobelite
Guy L. Hovis, Daniel Harlov, and Matthias Gottschalk

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94 Dehydration dynamics of bikitaite: Part I. In situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study
Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, Chiara Ceriani, Ettore Fois, Aldo Gamba, and Giuseppe Cruciani

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102 Dehydration dynamics of bikitaite: Part II. Ab initio molecular dynamics study
Chiara Ceriani, Ettore Fois, Aldo Gamba, Gloria Tabacchi, Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, and Giovanna Vezzalini

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126 An improved equation for crystal size distribution in second-phase influenced aggregates
Alfons Berger

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132 Vibrational spectroscopy of pyrope-majorite garnets: Structural implications
A.M. Hofmeister, P.A. Giesting, B. Wopenka, G.D. Gwanmesia, and B.L. Jolliff

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147 The modulated crystal structure of antigorite: The m = 17 polysome
Giancarlo Capitani and Marcello Mellini

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159 Structural variations in mercurian tetrahedrite
Franklin F. Foit Jr. and John M. Hughes

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176 Investigation of Al/Si ordering in tetrahedral phyllosilicate sheets by Monte Carlo simulation
Erika J. Palin and Martin T. Dove

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185 Equations of state of ZrSiO4 phases in the upper mantle
Shigeaki Ono, Yoshinori Tange, Ikuo Katayama, and Takumi Kikegawa

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189 High-pressure behavior, transformation and crystal structure of synthetic iron-free pigeonite
Fabrizio Nestola, Mario Tribaudino, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

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197 In situ determination of the compressibility of synthetic pure zircon (ZrSiO4) and the onset of the zircon-reidite phase transition
Wim van Westrenen, Mark R. Frank, John M. Hanchar, Yingwei Fei, Robert J. Finch, and Chang-Sheng Zha

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204 Halite-sylvite thermoelasticity
David Walker, Pramod K. Verma, Lachlan M.D. Cranswick, Raymond L. Jones, Simon M. Clark, and Stephan Buhre

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211 Spiral growth of grossular under hydrothermal conditions
Ralf Milke

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219 Incomplete retention of radiation damage in zircon from Sri Lanka
Lutz Nasdala, Peter W. Reiners, John I. Garver, Allen K. Kennedy, Richard A. Stern, Etienne Balan, and Richard Wirth

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232 Shirozulite, KMn2+3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, a new manganese-dominant trioctahedral mica: Description and crystal structure
Kiyotaka Ishida, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Fumitoshi Hirowatari

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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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LETTER

110

Phosphate mineral associations in the Cañada pegmatite (Salamanca, Spain): Paragenetic relationships, chemical compositions, and implications for pegmatite evolution
Encarnación Roda, Alfonso Pesquera, François Fontan, and Paul Keller

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164

A computational investigation of the Al/Fe/Mg order-disorder behavior in the dioctahedral sheet of phyllosilicates
Erika J. Palin, Martin T. Dove, Alfonso Hernández-Laguna, and C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz

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239

Novel phase transition in orthoenstatite
Jennifer M. Jackson, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Michael A. Carpenter, and Jay D. Bass

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245

In situ observation of the thermal decomposition of weddelite by heating stage environmental scanning electron microscopy
J. Theo Kloprogge, Thor E. Bostr??m, and Matt L. Weier

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1

Indialite in xenolithic rocks from Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Southern Italy): Crystal chemistry and petrogenetic features
Giuseppina Balassone, Enrico Franco, Carlo Andrea Mattia, and Raffaella Puliti

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

7

Coexisting chromian omphacite and diopside in tremolite schist from the Chugoku Mountains, SW Japan: The effect of Cr on the omphacite-diopside immiscibility gap
Tatsuki Tsujimori and Juhn G. Liou

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15

2111 biopyribole intermediate between pyroxene and amphibole: Artifact or natural product?
Hiromi Konishi, Reijo Alviola, and Peter R. Buseck

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20

Coexisting clinopyroxene/spinel and amphibole/spinel symplectites in metatroctolites from the Buck Creek ultramafic body, North Carolina Blue Ridge
Helen M. Lang, Aletha J. Wachter, Virginia L. Peterson, and Jeffrey G. Ryan

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

31

The T-X dependence of the isosymmetric displacive phase transition in synthetic Fe3+-Al zoisite: A temperature-dependent infrared spectroscopy study
Axel Liebscher and Matthias Gottschalk

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

39

A kinetic study of the exsolution of pentlandite (Ni,Fe)9S8 from the monosulfide solid solution (Fe,Ni)S
Barbara Etschmann, Allan Pring, Andrew Putnis, Benjamin A. Grguric, and Andrew Studer

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

51

Single-crystal plagioclase feldspar dissolution rates measured by vertical scanning interferometry
Rolf S. Arvidson, Mikala S. Beig, and Andreas Luttge

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57

A simple empirical method for high-quality electron microprobe analysis of fluorine at trace levels in Fe-bearing minerals and glasses
Jeffrey B. Witter and Scott M. Kuehner

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

64

Constraints on mingling of crystal populations from off-center zoning profiles: A statistical approach
Glen S. Wallace and George W. Bergantz

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74

Pyribole evolution during tremolite synthesis from oxides
Krassimir N. Bozhilov, David M. Jenkins, and David R. Veblen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

85

Solution calorimetric determination of the enthalpies of formation of NH4-bearing minerals buddingtonite and tobelite
Guy L. Hovis, Daniel Harlov, and Matthias Gottschalk

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

94

Dehydration dynamics of bikitaite: Part I. In situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study
Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, Chiara Ceriani, Ettore Fois, Aldo Gamba, and Giuseppe Cruciani

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102

Dehydration dynamics of bikitaite: Part II. Ab initio molecular dynamics study
Chiara Ceriani, Ettore Fois, Aldo Gamba, Gloria Tabacchi, Orazio Ferro, Simona Quartieri, and Giovanna Vezzalini

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126

An improved equation for crystal size distribution in second-phase influenced aggregates
Alfons Berger

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132

Vibrational spectroscopy of pyrope-majorite garnets: Structural implications
A.M. Hofmeister, P.A. Giesting, B. Wopenka, G.D. Gwanmesia, and B.L. Jolliff

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

147

The modulated crystal structure of antigorite: The m = 17 polysome
Giancarlo Capitani and Marcello Mellini

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159

Structural variations in mercurian tetrahedrite
Franklin F. Foit Jr. and John M. Hughes

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176

Investigation of Al/Si ordering in tetrahedral phyllosilicate sheets by Monte Carlo simulation
Erika J. Palin and Martin T. Dove

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185

Equations of state of ZrSiO4 phases in the upper mantle
Shigeaki Ono, Yoshinori Tange, Ikuo Katayama, and Takumi Kikegawa

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189

High-pressure behavior, transformation and crystal structure of synthetic iron-free pigeonite
Fabrizio Nestola, Mario Tribaudino, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

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197

In situ determination of the compressibility of synthetic pure zircon (ZrSiO4) and the onset of the zircon-reidite phase transition
Wim van Westrenen, Mark R. Frank, John M. Hanchar, Yingwei Fei, Robert J. Finch, and Chang-Sheng Zha

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204

Halite-sylvite thermoelasticity
David Walker, Pramod K. Verma, Lachlan M.D. Cranswick, Raymond L. Jones, Simon M. Clark, and Stephan Buhre

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211

Spiral growth of grossular under hydrothermal conditions
Ralf Milke

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219

Incomplete retention of radiation damage in zircon from Sri Lanka
Lutz Nasdala, Peter W. Reiners, John I. Garver, Allen K. Kennedy, Richard A. Stern, Etienne Balan, and Richard Wirth

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232

Shirozulite, KMn2+3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, a new manganese-dominant trioctahedral mica: Description and crystal structure
Kiyotaka Ishida, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Fumitoshi Hirowatari

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

249

NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, and Andrew C. Roberts

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BOOK REVIEW

254

BOOK REVIEW: APPLICATIONS OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION IN LOW-TEMPERATURE GEOCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. P.A. Fenter, M.L. Rivers, N. C. Sturchio, and S.R. Sutton, Eds., Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 2002, vol. 49, 579 p. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, D.C.
Martine C. Duff

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ERRATA

248

ERRATUM: The distribution of zeolites and their effects on the performance of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, U.S.A. by D.L. Bish, D.T. Vaniman, S.J. Chipera, and J.W. Carey (November-December 2003, vol. 88, no. 11-12, Part 2, 1889-1902).

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