American Mineralogist
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An empirical scaling model for averaging elastic properties including interfacial effects
Ekhard K.H. Salje
433
Optical absorption spectra of ferropericlase to 84 GPa
Hans Keppler, Innokenty Kantor, and Leonid S. Dubrovinsky
437
The acoustic emissions signature of a pressure-induced polytypic transformation in chlorite
David P. Dobson, Almar A. De Ronde, Mark D. Welch, and Philip G. Meredith
441
A new high-pressure CaGe2O5 polymorph with 5- and 6-coordinated germanium
Péter Németh, Kurt Leinenweber, Thomas L. Groy, and Peter R. Buseck
444
Terrestrial analogs of martian jarosites: Major, minor element systematics and Na-K zoning in selected samples
J.J. Papike, P.V. Burger, J.M. Karner, C.K. Shearer, and V.W. Lueth
MICROBEAM CATHODOLUMINESCENCE
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Preface: Recent developments in microbeam cathodoluminescence with applications to mineralogy
Ian M. Coulson, Paul R. Edwards, and Martin R. Lee
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Combined cathodoluminescence hyperspectral imaging and wavelength dispersive X-ray analysis of minerals
Paul R. Edwards, Robert W. Martin, and Martin R. Lee
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Identification of cathodoluminescence activators in zoned alkali feldspars by hyperspectral imaging and electron-probe microanalysis
Martin R. Lee, Ian Parsons, Paul R. Edwards, and Robert W. Martin
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Ionoluminescence of leucophanite
Henrik Friis, Adrian A. Finch, Peter D. Townsend, David E. Hole, and Hassane El Mkami
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Digital near-infrared (NIR) cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging and image processing
Henry Barwood
REGULAR ARTICLE
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Significance of aluminum phosphate-sulfate minerals associated with U unconformity-type deposits: The Athabasca basin, Canada
Stéphane Gaboreau, Michel Cuney, Dave Quirt, Daniel Beaufort, Patricia Patrier, and Régis Mathieu
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Hardness, toughness, and modulus of some common metamorphic minerals
Donna L. Whitney, Margaret Broz, and Robert F. Cook
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Diffusion compensation for argon, hydrogen, lead, and strontium in minerals: Empirical relationships to crystal chemistry
Zi-Fu Zhao and Yong-Fei Zheng
309
Elastic anomalies accompanying phase transitions in (Ca,Sr)TiO3 perovskites: Part I. Landau theory and a calibration for SrTiO3
Michael A. Carpenter
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Elastic anomalies accompanying phase transitions in (Ca,Sr)TiO3 perovskites: Part II. Calibration for the effects of composition and pressure
Michael A. Carpenter
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Elastic anomalies accompanying phase transitions in (Ca,Sr)TiO3 perovskites: Part III. Experimental investigation of polycrystalline samples
Michael A. Carpenter, Baosheng Li, and Robert C. Liebermann
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Patterns in the compositions of oxysalt and sulfosalt minerals, and the paradoxical nature of quartz
L. Bruce Railsback
370
Effect of variable carbonate concentration on the solidus of mantle peridotite
Rajdeep Dasgupta and Marc M. Hirschmann
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Time-resolved structural analysis of K- and Ba-exchange reactions with synthetic Na-birnessite using synchrotron X-ray diffraction
Christina L. Lopano, Peter J. Heaney, Jeffrey E. Post, Jonathan Hanson, and Sridhar Komarneni
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Heat capacity of synthetic hydrous Mg-cordierite at low temperatures: Thermodynamic properties and the behavior of the H2O molecule in selected hydrous micro and nanoporous silicates
Igor E. Paukov, Yulia A. Kovalevskaya, Nouri-said Rahmoun, and Charles A. Geiger
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Organic anions in layered double hydroxides: An experimental investigation of citrate hydrotalcite
Qiang Li and R. James Kirkpatrick
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The 6H-SiC structure model: Further refinement from SCXRD data from a terrestrial moissanite
Gian Carlo Capitani, Simonpietro Di Pierro, and Gioacchino Tempesta
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Cobalt incorporation in mullite
Jasminka Popović, Emilija Tkalčec, Biserka Gržeta, Stanislav Kurajica, and Joerg Schmauch
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Thermal expansion between 480 and 940 °C of Cr-doped mullites derived from single-phase precursors
Biserka Gržeta, Jasminka Popović, Emilija Tkalčec, and Hrvoje Ivanković
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Armbrusterite, K5Na6Mn3+Mn2+14[Si9O22]4(OH)10·4H2O, a new Mn hydrous heterophyllosilicate from the Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Ekaterina A. Selivanova, Yury P. Men’shikov, and Sergey N. Britvin
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Effects of differential recoil-free fraction on ordering and site occupancies in Mössbauer spectroscopy of orthopyroxenes
M. Darby Dyar, Rachel L. Klima, Donald Lindsley, and Carlé M. Pieters
MEMORIAL
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Memorial of Hubert Curien, 1924-2005
Georges Calas
BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW: GEMS: THEIR SOURCES, DESCRIPTIONS, AND IDENTIFICATION, sixth ed. Edited by Michael O’Donoghue (2006) Elsevier, Great Britain, 873 pp
Florie Caporuscio
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