American Mineralogist

Volume 91, Issue no. 1112 : November - December 2006

Letter

1937 Crystallographic alignments in a coccolith (Pleurochrysis carterae) revealed by electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD)
Kazuko Saruwatari, Noriaki Ozaki,Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

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1941 High-pressure study of FeS, between 20 and 120 GPa, using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction
Shigeaki Ono and Takumi Kikegawa

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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

1730 A rare garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the granulite-facies region of south-central Massachusetts
Jennifer A. Thomson

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1739 Effects of natural radiation damage on backscattered electron images of single crystals of minerals
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, John M. Hanchar, Marion Tichomirowa, Donald W. Davis, and Wolfgang Hofmeister

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1747 Thermal diffusivity of olivine-group minerals at high temperature
Maik Pertermann and Anne M. Hofmeister

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1761 Quantum mechanical vs. empirical potential modeling of uranium dioxide (UO2) surfaces: (111), (110), and (100)
Frances N. Skomurski, Rodney C. Ewing, Andrew L. Rohl, Julian D. Gale, and Udo Becker

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1773 A XANES study of Cu speciation in high-temperature brines using synthetic fluid inclusions
Andrew J. Berry, Alistair C. Hack, John A. Mavrogenes, Matthew Newville, and Stephen R. Sutton

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1783 A new approach to determine and quantify structural units in silicate glasses using micro-reflectance Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy
Kim N. Dalby and Penelope L. King

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1802 Hugoniot and impact-induced phase transition of magnesite
Toshimori Sekine, Hongliang He, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Akira Yamaguchi

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1807 Finite element modeling of elastic volume changes in fluid inclusions: Comparison with experiment
Pamela C. Burnley and Christian Schmidt

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1815 Thermodynamics of mixing in pyrope-grossular, Mg3Al2Si3O12-Ca3Al2Si3O12, solid solution from lattice dynamics calculations and Monte Carlo simulations
Victor L. Vinograd and Marcel H.F. Sluiter

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1839 New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and A. Loose

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1857 Recovery of stishovite-structure at ambient conditions out of shock-generated amorphous silica
Oliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrens

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1863 New experimental data on biotite + magnetite + sanidine saturated phonolitic melts and application to the estimation of magmatic water fugacity
Alessandro Fabbrizio, Paul J. Rouse, and Michael R. Carroll

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1871 Structural effects of pressure on triclinic chlorite: A single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, M. Montagnoli, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

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1879 New high-pressure phase relations in CaSnO3
Taku Tsuchiya and Jun Tsuchiya

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1888 A high-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of hafnon, HfSiO4
Bouchaib Manoun, Robert T. Downs, and Surendra K. Saxena

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1893 Single-crystal elasticity of brucite, Mg(OH)2, to 15 GPa by Brillouin scattering
Fuming Jiang, Sergio Speziale, and Thomas S. Duffy

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1901 The effect of composition on Cr2+/Cr3+ in silicate melts
Andrew J. Berry, Hugh St.C. O'Neill, Dean R. Scott, Garry J. Foran, and J.M.G. Shelley

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1909 Phosphohedyphane, Ca2Pb3(PO4)3Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure
Anthony R. Kampf, Ian M. Steele, and Robert A. Jenkins

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1918 Synthesis of novel lead-molybdenum and lead-tungsten oxyhalides with the pinalite structure, Pb3MoO5Cl2 and Pb3WO5Br2
Dmitri O. Charkin and Philip Lightfoot

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1922 Depolymerization effect of water in aluminosilicate glasses: Direct evidence from 1H-27Al heteronuclear correlation NMR
Xianyu Xue and Masami Kanzaki

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1927 Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data
Bogdan P. Onac, Herta Effenberger, Karl Ettinger, and Simona Cinta Panzaru

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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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MSA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

1794

Titanium incorporation and VITi3+IVTi4+ charge transfer in synthetic diopside
Henrik Skogby, Ulf Hålenius, Per Kristiansson, and Haruo Ohashi

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1831

Does antigorite really contain 4- and 8-membered rings of tetrahedra?
István Dódony, Mihály Pósfai, and Peter R. Buseck

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1847

Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared spectroscopic studies
Andreas Ertl, John M. HOliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrensughes, Stefan Prowatke, Thomas Ludwig, Pinnelli S.R. Prasad, Franz Brandstätter, Wilfried Körner, Ralf Schuster, Franz Pertlik, and Horst Marschall

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1932

Matioliite, the Mg-analog of burangaite, from Gentil mine, Mendes Pimentel, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and other occurrences
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, and Javier A. Ellena

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1715

Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules
Robert M. Hazen

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LETTER

1937

Crystallographic alignments in a coccolith (Pleurochrysis carterae) revealed by electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD)
Kazuko Saruwatari, Noriaki Ozaki,Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

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1941

High-pressure study of FeS, between 20 and 120 GPa, using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction
Shigeaki Ono and Takumi Kikegawa

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1730

A rare garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the granulite-facies region of south-central Massachusetts
Jennifer A. Thomson

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1739

Effects of natural radiation damage on backscattered electron images of single crystals of minerals
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, John M. Hanchar, Marion Tichomirowa, Donald W. Davis, and Wolfgang Hofmeister

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1747

Thermal diffusivity of olivine-group minerals at high temperature
Maik Pertermann and Anne M. Hofmeister

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1761

Quantum mechanical vs. empirical potential modeling of uranium dioxide (UO2) surfaces: (111), (110), and (100)
Frances N. Skomurski, Rodney C. Ewing, Andrew L. Rohl, Julian D. Gale, and Udo Becker

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1773

A XANES study of Cu speciation in high-temperature brines using synthetic fluid inclusions
Andrew J. Berry, Alistair C. Hack, John A. Mavrogenes, Matthew Newville, and Stephen R. Sutton

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1783

A new approach to determine and quantify structural units in silicate glasses using micro-reflectance Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy
Kim N. Dalby and Penelope L. King

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1802

Hugoniot and impact-induced phase transition of magnesite
Toshimori Sekine, Hongliang He, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Akira Yamaguchi

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1807

Finite element modeling of elastic volume changes in fluid inclusions: Comparison with experiment
Pamela C. Burnley and Christian Schmidt

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1815

Thermodynamics of mixing in pyrope-grossular, Mg3Al2Si3O12-Ca3Al2Si3O12, solid solution from lattice dynamics calculations and Monte Carlo simulations
Victor L. Vinograd and Marcel H.F. Sluiter

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1839

New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and A. Loose

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1857

Recovery of stishovite-structure at ambient conditions out of shock-generated amorphous silica
Oliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrens

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1863

New experimental data on biotite + magnetite + sanidine saturated phonolitic melts and application to the estimation of magmatic water fugacity
Alessandro Fabbrizio, Paul J. Rouse, and Michael R. Carroll

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1871

Structural effects of pressure on triclinic chlorite: A single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, M. Montagnoli, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

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1879

New high-pressure phase relations in CaSnO3
Taku Tsuchiya and Jun Tsuchiya

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1888

A high-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of hafnon, HfSiO4
Bouchaib Manoun, Robert T. Downs, and Surendra K. Saxena

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1893

Single-crystal elasticity of brucite, Mg(OH)2, to 15 GPa by Brillouin scattering
Fuming Jiang, Sergio Speziale, and Thomas S. Duffy

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1901

The effect of composition on Cr2+/Cr3+ in silicate melts
Andrew J. Berry, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, Dean R. Scott, Garry J. Foran, and J.M.G. Shelley

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1909

Phosphohedyphane, Ca2Pb3(PO4)3Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure
Anthony R. Kampf, Ian M. Steele, and Robert A. Jenkins

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1918

Synthesis of novel lead-molybdenum and lead-tungsten oxyhalides with the pinalite structure, Pb3MoO5Cl2 and Pb3WO5Br2
Dmitri O. Charkin and Philip Lightfoot

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1922

Depolymerization effect of water in aluminosilicate glasses: Direct evidence from 1H-27Al heteronuclear correlation NMR
Xianyu Xue and Masami Kanzaki

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1927

Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data
Bogdan P. Onac, Herta Effenberger, Karl Ettinger, and Simona Cinta Panzaru

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

1945

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Andrew J. Locock, T. Scott Ercit, Johan Kjellman, And Paula C. Piilonen,

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BOOK REVIEW

1955

BOOK REVIEW
Florie Caporuscio

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ERRATA

1956

ERRATUM: Icosahedral coordination of phosphorus in the crystal structure of melliniite, a new phosphide mineral from the Northwest Africa 1054 acapulcoite by Giovanni Pratesi, Luca Bindi, and Vanni Moggi-Cecchi (vol. 91, 451-454, 2006, DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.478).

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