American Mineralogist

Volume 90, Issue no. 04 : April 2005

Letter

749 Differentiation of commercial vermiculite based on statistical analysis of bulk chemical data: Fingerprinting vermiculite from Libby, Montana U.S.A.
Mickey E. Gunter, Eron Singleton, Bryan R. Bandli, Heather A. Lowers, and Gregory P. Meeker

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758 Iron isotope exchange kinetics at the nanoparticulate ferrihydrite surface
Rebecca L. Poulson, Clark M. Johnson, and Brian L. Beard

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764 Cation distribution in MgFe2O4 vs. pressure and temperature: Experiments in a piston-cylinder apparatus
Alexander I. Turkin and Valeri A. Drebushchak

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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

525 Preface to collected papers on monazite microprobe geochronology
Michael L. Williams and Robert J. Tracy

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526 Analytical perils (and progress) in electron microprobe trace element analysis applied to geochronology: Background acquisition, interferences, and beam irradiation effects
Michael J. Jercinovic and Michael L. Williams

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547 Contributions to precision and accuracy of monazite microprobe ages
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, David A. Wark, Christopher G. Daniel, and Lara C. Storm

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578 Electron-microprobe age mapping of monazite
Philippe Goncalves, Michael L. Williams, and Michael J. Jercinovic

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586 Isotopic age constraints from electron microprobe U-Th-Pb dates, using a three-dimensional concordia diagram
Yvette D. Kuiper

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592 Monazite ages in the Chesham Pond Nappe, SW New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Implications for assembly of central New England thrust sheets
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, John T. Cheney, and Graham Layne

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619 Comparative isotopic and chemical geochronometry of monazite, with implications for U-Th-Pb dating by electron microprobe: An example from metamorphic rocks of the eastern Wyoming craton (U.S.A.)
Peter S. Dahl, Michael A. Hamilton, Michael J. Jercinovic, Michael P. Terry, Michael L. Williams, and Robert Frei

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639 Re-examination of the hydrogarnet structure at high pressure using neutron powder diffraction and infrared spectroscopy
George A. Lager, William G. Marshall, Zhenxian Liu, and Robert T. Downs

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645 Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution of zeolite levyne
Giacomo Diego Gatta, Paola Comodi, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

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663 Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca3Cr2Si3O12)
S. Klemme, J.C. van Miltenburg, P. Javorsky, and F. Wastin

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667 Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO3 at 40 GPa
Shigeaki Ono, Takumi Kikegawa, Yasuo Ohishi, and Jun Tsuchiya

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679 The order-disorder character of FeOHSO4 obtained from the thermal decomposition of metahohmannite, Fe3+2(H2O)4[O(SO4)2]
Gennaro Ventruti, Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, and Carlo Meneghini

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687 Temperature and composition dependence of structural phase transitions in Ca(TixZr1-x)OGeO4
Rikke Ellemann-Olesen and Thomas Malcherek

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701 Charge contrast imaging of fine-scale microstructure and compositional variation in garnet using the environmental scanning electron microscope
Simon J. Cuthbert and James O. Buckman

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718 Environmentally important, poorly crystalline Fe/Mn hydrous oxides: Ferrihydrite and a possibly new vernadite-like mineral from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex
Michael F. Hochella, Jr., Takeshi Kasama, Andrew Putnis, Christine V. Putnis, and Johnnie N. Moore

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725 The true structure of wonesite, an interlayerdeficient trioctahedral sodium mica
Toshihiro Kogure, Ritsuro Miyawaki, and Yasuyuki Banno

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737 XRMapAnal: A program for analysis of quantitative X-ray maps
Douglas K. Tinkham and Edward D. Ghent

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Supplements

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American Mineralogist      Vol. 107, no. 1   January 2022

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

607

Electron-microprobe dating as a tool for determining the closure of Th-U-Pb systems in migmatitic monazites
Alain Cocherie, Eugène be Mezeme, Olivier Legendre, C. Mark Fanning, Michel Faure, and Philippe Rossi

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653

Crystal chemistry of the hydrothermally synthesized Na2(Mn1-xFe2+x)2Fe3+(PO4)3 alluaudite-type solid solution
Frédéric Hatert, Leila Rebbouh, Raphaël P. Hermann, André-Mathieu Fransolet, Gary J. Long, and Fernande Grandjean

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672

Direct formation of the γ-CaSO4 phase in dehydration process of gypsum: In situ FTIR study
P.S.R. Prasad, V. Krishna Chaitanya, K. Shiva Prasad, and D. Narayana Rao

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695

Low-T neutron powder-diffraction and synchrotron-radiation IR study of synthetic amphibole Na(NaMg)Mg5Si8O22(OH)2
G. Iezzi, G.D. Gatta, W. Kockelmann, G. Della Ventura, R. Rinaldi, W. Schäfer, M. Piccinini, and F. Gaillard

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708

Piston-cylinder experiments on H2O undersaturated Fe-bearing systems: An experimental setup approaching
Ralf Kägi, Othmar Müntener, Peter Ulmer, and Luisa Ottolini

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732

Clinoholmquistite discredited: The new amphibole end-member fluoro-sodic-pedrizite
Roberta Oberti, Fernando Cámara, and Luisa Ottolini

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745

Growth zoning and strain patterns inside diamond crystals as revealed by Raman maps
Lutz Nasdala, Wolfgang Hofmeister, Jeffrey W. Harris, and Jürgen Glinnemann

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755

Crystal structure of single-crystal CaGeO3 tetragonal garnet synthesized at 3 GPa and 1000 °C
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Hiroki Chaya, and Akira Yoshiasa

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749

Differentiation of commercial vermiculite based on statistical analysis of bulk chemical data: Fingerprinting vermiculite from Libby, Montana U.S.A.
Mickey E. Gunter, Eron Singleton, Bryan R. Bandli, Heather A. Lowers, and Gregory P. Meeker

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758

Iron isotope exchange kinetics at the nanoparticulate ferrihydrite surface
Rebecca L. Poulson, Clark M. Johnson, and Brian L. Beard

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764

Cation distribution in MgFe2O4 vs. pressure and temperature: Experiments in a piston-cylinder apparatus
Alexander I. Turkin and Valeri A. Drebushchak

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REGULAR ARTICLE

525

Preface to collected papers on monazite microprobe geochronology
Michael L. Williams and Robert J. Tracy

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

526

Analytical perils (and progress) in electron microprobe trace element analysis applied to geochronology: Background acquisition, interferences, and beam irradiation effects
Michael J. Jercinovic and Michael L. Williams

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

547

Contributions to precision and accuracy of monazite microprobe ages
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, David A. Wark, Christopher G. Daniel, and Lara C. Storm

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

578

Electron-microprobe age mapping of monazite
Philippe Goncalves, Michael L. Williams, and Michael J. Jercinovic

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586

Isotopic age constraints from electron microprobe U-Th-Pb dates, using a three-dimensional concordia diagram
Yvette D. Kuiper

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592

Monazite ages in the Chesham Pond Nappe, SW New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Implications for assembly of central New England thrust sheets
Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, John T. Cheney, and Graham Layne

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619

Comparative isotopic and chemical geochronometry of monazite, with implications for U-Th-Pb dating by electron microprobe: An example from metamorphic rocks of the eastern Wyoming craton (U.S.A.)
Peter S. Dahl, Michael A. Hamilton, Michael J. Jercinovic, Michael P. Terry, Michael L. Williams, and Robert Frei

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639

Re-examination of the hydrogarnet structure at high pressure using neutron powder diffraction and infrared spectroscopy
George A. Lager, William G. Marshall, Zhenxian Liu, and Robert T. Downs

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645

Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution of zeolite levyne
Giacomo Diego Gatta, Paola Comodi, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

663

Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca3Cr2Si3O12)
S. Klemme, J.C. van Miltenburg, P. Javorsky, and F. Wastin

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667

Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO3 at 40 GPa
Shigeaki Ono, Takumi Kikegawa, Yasuo Ohishi, and Jun Tsuchiya

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679

The order-disorder character of FeOHSO4 obtained from the thermal decomposition of metahohmannite, Fe3+2(H2O)4[O(SO4)2]
Gennaro Ventruti, Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, and Carlo Meneghini

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687

Temperature and composition dependence of structural phase transitions in Ca(TixZr1-x)OGeO4
Rikke Ellemann-Olesen and Thomas Malcherek

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701

Charge contrast imaging of fine-scale microstructure and compositional variation in garnet using the environmental scanning electron microscope
Simon J. Cuthbert and James O. Buckman

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718

Environmentally important, poorly crystalline Fe/Mn hydrous oxides: Ferrihydrite and a possibly new vernadite-like mineral from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex
Michael F. Hochella, Jr., Takeshi Kasama, Andrew Putnis, Christine V. Putnis, and Johnnie N. Moore

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725

The true structure of wonesite, an interlayerdeficient trioctahedral sodium mica
Toshihiro Kogure, Ritsuro Miyawaki, and Yasuyuki Banno

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737

XRMapAnal: A program for analysis of quantitative X-ray maps
Douglas K. Tinkham and Edward D. Ghent

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

768

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen, T. Scott Ercit, And Andrew C. Roberts

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BOOK REVIEW

774

BOOK REVIEW: DEER, HOWIE AND ZUSSMAN ROCK-FORMING MINERALS, SHEET SILICATES: MICAS, volume 3A, 2nd edition. By M.E. Fleet, The Geological Society, London, 2003, 758 pp.
Stephen Guggenheim

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ERRATA

776

ERRATUM: The Mn, Mg-intracrystalline exchange reaction in donpeacorite (Mn0.54Ca0.03Mg1.43Si2O6) and its relation to the fractionation behavior of Mn in Fe, Mg-orthopyroxene by Marilena Stimpfl (2005, vol. 90, p. 155-161, DOI: 10.2138/am.2005.444)

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