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Electron-beam (5—10 keV) damage in triplite-group phosphates: Consequences for electron-microprobe analysis of fluorine
Michel Fialin and Christian Chopin
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Parvo-mangano-edenite, parvo-manganotremolite, and the solid solution between Ca and Mn2+ at the M4 site in amphiboles
Roberta Oberti, Fernando Cámara, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Gianluca Iezzi, and Alan I. Benimoff
537
The mechanism and kinetics of α-NiS oxidation in the temperature range 670—700 °C
Haipeng Wang, Allan Pring, Yung Ngothai, and Brian O’Neill
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In situ HAFM study of the thermal dehydration on gypsum (010) surfaces
Guntram Jordan and José Manuel Astilleros
685
Genesis and compositional heterogeneity of smectites. Part III: Alteration of basic pyroclastic rocks—A case study from the Troodos Ophiolite Complex, Cyprus
George E. Christidis
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Transformation of pentlandite to violarite under mild hydrothermal conditions
Christophe Tenailleau, Allan Pring, Barbara Etschmann, Joël Brugger, Ben Grguric, and Andrew Putnis
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ERRATUM: Oxy-amphibole equilibria in Ti-bearing calcic amphiboles: Experimental investigation and petrologic implications for mantle-derived amphiboles by R.K. Popp, H.A. Hibbert, and W.M. Lamb (vol. 91, no. 1, p. 54–66, DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.1838).
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Structural model for the biogenic Mn oxide produced by
Mario Villalobos, Bruno Lanson, Alain Manceau, Brandy Toner, and Garrison Sposito
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Vacancy defects in MgO at high pressure
Bijaya B. Karki and Gaurav Khanduja
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Plastic flow of pyrope at mantle pressure and temperature
Li Li, Hongbo Long, Paul Raterron, and Donald Weidner
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Reinvestigation of the MgSiO3 perovskite structure at high pressure
Masahiko Sugahara, Akira Yoshiasa, Yutaka Komatsu, Takamitsu Yamanaka, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Akihiko Nakatsuka, Satoshi Sasaki, and Masahiko Tanaka
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Influence of charge location on 29Si NMR chemical shift of 2:1 phyllosilicates
Jes??s Sanz, Jean-Louis Robert, Magali Diaz, and Isabel Sobrados
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The size distribution of exsolution lamellae in iron-free clinopyroxene
Stephan Weinbruch, Volker Styrsa, and Thomas Dirsch
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The high-pressure phase transformation and breakdown of MgFe2O4
Sofia Winell, Hans Annersten, and Vitali Prakapenka
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Elastic behavior, phase transition, and pressure induced structural evolution of analcime
G. Diego Gatta, Fabrizio Nestola, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
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A new chemical etching technique for peridotites using molten anhydrous borax
Tomohiro Ohuchi
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Poppiite, the V3+ end-member of the pumpellyite group: Description and crystal structure
Maria Franca Brigatti, Enrico Caprilli, and Marco Marchesini
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Cation redistribution in the octahedral sheet during diagenesis of illite-smectites from Jurassic and Cambrian oil source rock shales
Lidia G. Dainyak, Victor A. Drits, Bella B. Zviagina, and Holger Lindgreen
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A shock-induced polymorph of anatase and rutile from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, U.S.A.
John C. Jackson, J. Wright Horton, Jr., I-Ming Chou, and Harvey E. Belkin
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Water in the interlayer region of birnessite: Importance in cation exchange and structural stability
Elizabeth A. Johnson and Jeffrey E. Post
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Influence of dehydration kinetics on T-O-T bridge breaking in zeolites with framework type STI: The case of stellerite
R. Arletti, E. Mazzucato, and G. Vezzalini
635
Estimation of volume fractions of liquid and vapor phases in fluid inclusions, and definition of inclusion shapes
Ronald J. Bakker and Larryn W. Diamond
658
Thermodynamics of uranyl minerals: Enthalpies of formation of uranyl oxide hydrates
Karrie-Ann Kubatko, Katheryn Helean, Alexandra Navrotsky, and Peter C. Burns
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SIMS investigation of electron-beam damage to hydrous, rhyolitic glasses: Implications for melt inclusion analysis
Madeleine C.S. Humphreys, Stuart L. Kearns, and Jon D. Blundy
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Synthetic Ag-rich tourmaline: Structure and chemistry
David London, Andreas Ertl, John M. Hughes, George B. Morgan VI, Eric A. Fritz, and Brian S. Harms
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Ganterite, the barium mica Ba0.5K0.5Al2(Al1.5Si2.5)O10(OH)2, from Oreana, Nevada
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
Andrew J. Locock, Paula C. Piilonen, T. Scott Ercit, Ralph Rowe, and Uwe Kolitsch
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