1616

High-pressure optical spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies on synthetic cobalt aluminum silicate garnet
Michail N. Taran, Fabrizio Nestola, Haruo Ohashi, Monika Koch-Müller, Tonci Balic-Zunic, and Lars Arnskov Olsen

1640

Single-crystal structure refinement of diaspore at 50 GPa
Alexandra Friedrich, Eiken Haussühl, Reinhard Boehler, Wolfgang Morgenroth, Erick A. Juarez-arellano, and Björn Winkler

1645

FTIR spectroscopy of Ti-rich pargasites from Lherz and the detection of O2– at the anionic O3 site in amphiboles
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Fabio Bellatreccia

1652

The relative stability of monazite and huttonite at 300–900 °C and 200–1000 MPa: Metasomatism and the propagation of metastable mineral phases
Daniel E. Harlov, Richard Wirth, and Callum J. Hetherington

1665

Acoustic dissipation associated with phase transitions in lawsonite, CaAl₂Si₂O₇(OH)₂·H₂O
Ruth E.A. Mcknight, Michael A. Carpenter, Tim W. Darling, Andy Buckley, and Paul A. Taylor

1685

Non-ideality and defectivity of the åkermanite-gehlenite solid solution: An X-ray diffraction and TEM study
Mauro Gemmi, Marco Merlini, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Gilberto Artioli

1695

The system Al₂O₃-P₂O₅-H₂O at temperatures below 200 °C: Experimental data on the stability of variscite and metavariscite AlPO₄·2H₂O
Kirsten Drüppel, Andreas Hösch, and Gerhard Franz

1714

Ion exchange equilibrium and structural changes in clinoptilolite irradiated with β- and γ-radiation: Monovalent cations
Daniel Moraetis, George E. Christidis, and Vasilios Perdikatsis

1772

High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2 μm gradients and slow diffusion in zircon
F. Zeb Page, T. Ushikubo, N.T. Kita, L.R. Riciputi, and J.W. Valley

1780

BOOK REVIEW: Minerals first discovered in Switzerland…and minerals named after Swiss individuals by Philippe Roth. (2006) ISBN: 3-980-7561-8-1, 239 pages, Kristallographik Verlag, Achberg, Germany
Kurt Bucher

1756

Meridianiite: A new mineral species observed on Earth and predicted to exist on Mars
R.C. Peterson, W. Nelson, B. Madu, and H.F. Shurvell

1760

Equations of state of CaIrO₃ perovskite and post-perovskite phases
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Reidar G. Tr??nnes, and Daniel J. Frost

1764

Hydrogen-carbonate ion in synthetic high-pressure apatite
Michael E. Fleet and Xi Liu

1768

Effects of irradiation damage on the back-scattering of electrons: Silicon-implanted silicon
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, Dieter Grambole, and Ghislain Trullenque

1545

Ferric iron in Al-bearing akimotoite coexisting with iron-nickel metal in a shock-melt vein in an L-6 chondrite
Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Ahmed El Goresy, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek, Friedrich Seifert, David C. Rubie, Ming Chen, and Xiande Xie

1550

Solidification and microstructures of binary ice-I/hydrate eutectic aggregates
Christine McCarthy, Reid F. Cooper, Stephen H. Kirby, Karen D. Rieck, and Laura A. Stern

1561

A monazite oxygen isotope thermometer
Dan O. Breecker and Zachary D. Sharp

1573

The albite fusion curve re-examined: New experiments and the high-pressure density and compressibility of high albite and NaAlSi₃O₈ liquid
Travis J. Tenner, Rebecca A. Lange, and Robert T. Downs

1586

XRD and HRTEM analyses of stacking structures in sudoite, di-trioctahedral chlorite
Jun Kameda, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Ryuji Kitagawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

1593

Vibrational dynamics in H+-substituted forsterite: A first-principles molecular dynamics study
Dawn M. Shaw and John S. Tse

1601

Fluorophlogopite from Biancavilla (Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy): Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of a new F-dominant analog of phlogopite
Antonio Gianfagna, Fernando Scordari, Simona Mazziotti-Tagliani, Gennaro Ventruti, and Luisa Ottolini

1610

Pressure-induced over-hydration of thomsonite: A synchrotron powder diffraction study
Anna Yu. Likhacheva, Yuriy V. Seryotkin, Andrey Yu. Manakov, Sergey V. Goryainov, Aleksey I. Ancharov, and Mikhail A. Sheromov

1624

In situ observation of the decomposition of kyanite at high pressures and high temperatures
Shigeaki Ono, Yoichi Nakajima, and Kenichi Funakoshi

1630

Mineralogy and crystal structure of bouazzerite from Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: Bi-As-Fe nanoclusters containing Fe³⁺ in trigonal prismatic coordination
Joël Brugger, Nicolas Meisser, Sergey Krivovichev, Thomas Armbruster, and Georges Favreau

1673

Magnetic anisotropy of carbonate minerals at room temperature and 77 K
Volkmar Schmidt, Ann M. Hirt, Kathrin Hametner, and Detlef Günther

1704

Low-pressure decomposition of chrysotile as a function of time and temperature
P.A. Candela, C.D. Crummett, D.J. Earnest, M.R. Frank, and A.G. Wylie

1731

Investigation of dioctahedral smectite hydration properties by modeling of X-ray diffraction profiles: Influence of layer charge and charge location
Eric Ferrage, Bruno Lanson, Boris A. Sakharov, Nicolas Geoffroy, Emmanuel Jacquot, and Victor A. Drits

1744

Growth of large (1 mm) MgSiO₃ perovskite single crystals: A thermal gradient method at ultrahigh pressure
Anton Shatskiy, Hiroshi Fukui, Takuya Matsuzaki, Keiji Shinoda, Akira Yoneda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, and Tomoo Katsura

1750

Carbon is not required during crystallization to produce ferrobasalts/ferrodiorites (FTP rocks)
Matthew L. Whitaker, Donald H. Lindsley, Jan M. Kubicek Whitaker, and Hanna Nekvasil

1776

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Glenn Poirier and Paula C. Piilonen