American Mineralogist

Volume 92, Issue no. 1112 : November - December 2007

Letter

2002 Valence state partitioning of Cr between pyroxene-melt: Effects of pyroxene and melt composition and direct determination of Cr valence states by XANES. Application to Martian basalt QUE 94201 composition
J.M. Karner, J.J. Papike, S.R. Sutton, C.K. Shearer, G. McKay, L. Le, and P. Burger

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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

1781 Evaluation of image classification routines for determining modal mineralogy of rocks from X-ray maps
Amy K. Maloy and Allan H. Treiman

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1800 Significance of the depth-related transition montmorillonite-beidellite in the Bouillante geothermal field (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles)
Delphine Guisseau, Patricia Patrier Mas, Daniel Beaufort, Jean Pierre Girard, Atsuyuki Inoue, Bernard Sanjuan, Sabine Petit, Arnaud Lens, and Albert Genter

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1814 High-pressure infrared spectra of talc and lawsonite
Henry P. Scott, Zhenxian Liu, Russell J. Hemley, and Quentin Williams

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1821 Proton dynamics in letovicite: Part I. Static 1H and 15N NMR MAS experiments and lineshape simulations
Michael Fechtelkord, Astrid Diekmann, and Ulrich Bismayer

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1827 Proton dynamics in letovicite: Part II. Static 2H NMR experiments and lineshape simulations
Michael Fechtelkord, Astrid Diekmann, and Ulrich Bismayer

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1833 Chemical and structural variations at augite (100) deformation twin boundaries
Shouliang Zhang and David R. Veblen

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1838 Comparative compressibility and structural behavior of spinel MgAl2O4 at high pressures: The independency on the degree of cation order
F. Nestola, T. Boffa Ballaran, T. Balic-Zunic, F. Princivalle, L. Secco, and A. Dal Negro

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1844 Multiple breakdown and chemical equilibrium of silicic clinopyroxene under extreme metamorphic conditions in the Kontum Massif, central Vietnam
Nobuhiko Nakano, Yasuhito Osanai, and Masaaki Owada

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1856 Direct EXAFS evidence for incorporation of As5+ in the tetrahedral site of natural andraditic garnet
J.M. Charnock, D.A. Polya, A.G. Gault, and R.A. Wogelius

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1875 Scandium-45 NMR of pyrope-grossular garnets: Resolution of multiple scandium sites and comparison with X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Namjun Kim, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Simona Quartieri, and Roberta Oberti

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1881 Partitioning of trace elements among coexisting crystals, melt, and supercritical fluid during isobaric crystallization and melting
Frank J. Spera, Wendy A. Bohrson, Christy B. Till, and Mark S. Ghiorso

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1899 Thermal diffusivity of aluminous spinels and magnetite at elevated temperature with implications for heat transport in Earth's transition zone
Anne M. Hofmeister

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1912 High-pressure structure and bonding in CaIrO3: The structure model of MgSiO3 post-perovskite investigated with time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction
C. David Martin, Ronald I. Smith, William G. Marshall, and John B. Parise

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1919 Application of major- and trace-element geochemistry to refine U-Pb zircon, and Sm/Nd or Lu/Hf sampling targets for geochronology of HP and UHP eclogites, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
Kurt Hollocher, Peter Robinson, M.P. Terry, and Emily Walsh

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1925 Measurement of U-Pb ages of uraninite and davidite by laser ablation-HR-ICP-MS
Don Chipley, Paul A. Polito, and T. Kurtis Kyser

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1936 A modeling approach to understanding the role of microstructure development on crystal-size distributions and on recovering crystal-size distributions from thin slices
Roddy Amenta, Anne Ewing, Amy Jensen, Sarah Roberts, Krista Stevens, Michelle Summa, Stephanie Weaver, and Paxton Wertz

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1946 Neptunium substitution in synthetic uranophane and soddyite
Amanda L. Klingensmith and Peter C. Burns

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1952 Coexistence of twisted and untwisted crystals: An impurity/structural order model with implications for agate patterns
J. Comer and P. Ortoleva

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1958 Intracrystalline boron isotope partitioning in illite-smectite: Testing the geothermometer
Lynda B. Williams, Amanda Turner, and Richard L. Hervig

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1978 Dissolution of radiation-damaged zircon in lateritic soils
Simon Delattre, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Rodney C. Ewing, Jean-Loup Boeglin, Jean-Jacques Braun, Etienne Balan, and Georges Calas

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1998 Re-examination of berlinite (AlPO4) from the Cioclovina Cave, Romania
Bogdan P. Onac and Herta S. Effenberger

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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
Item #AM-22-17818
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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
Item #AM-22-17609
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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

Item #AM-22-17731
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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
Item #AM-22-17855
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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
Item #AM-22-17851
CIF and Online Material
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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
Item #AM-22-17651
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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
Item #AM-22-17904
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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
Item #AM-22-17875
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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
Item #AM-22-17747
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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

1789

Atomic structure and formation mechanism of (301) rutile twins from Diamantina (Brazil)
Nina Daneu, Herbert Schmid, Aleksander Rečnik, and Werner Maderc

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1862

Deformation-controlled cation diffusion in tourmaline: A microanalytical study on trace elements and boron isotopes
Steffen H. Büttner and Simone A. Kasemann

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1966

Mineralogy of the hardpan formation processes in the interface between sulfide-rich sludge and fly ash: Applications for acid mine drainage mitigation
Rafael Pérez-López, José Miguel Nieto, Antonio M. Álvarez-Valero, and Gabriel Ruiz de Almodóvar

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1990

Hydrogen analysis in minerals by continuous-flow mass spectrometry
Julie A. O’Leary, George R. Rossman, and John M. Eiler

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2002

Valence state partitioning of Cr between pyroxene-melt: Effects of pyroxene and melt composition and direct determination of Cr valence states by XANES. Application to Martian basalt QUE 94201 composition
J.M. Karner, J.J. Papike, S.R. Sutton, C.K. Shearer, G. McKay, L. Le, and P. Burger

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

REGULAR ARTICLE

1781

Evaluation of image classification routines for determining modal mineralogy of rocks from X-ray maps
Amy K. Maloy and Allan H. Treiman

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1800

Significance of the depth-related transition montmorillonite-beidellite in the Bouillante geothermal field (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles)
Delphine Guisseau, Patricia Patrier Mas, Daniel Beaufort, Jean Pierre Girard, Atsuyuki Inoue, Bernard Sanjuan, Sabine Petit, Arnaud Lens, and Albert Genter

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1814

High-pressure infrared spectra of talc and lawsonite
Henry P. Scott, Zhenxian Liu, Russell J. Hemley, and Quentin Williams

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1821

Proton dynamics in letovicite: Part I. Static 1H and 15N NMR MAS experiments and lineshape simulations
Michael Fechtelkord, Astrid Diekmann, and Ulrich Bismayer

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1827

Proton dynamics in letovicite: Part II. Static 2H NMR experiments and lineshape simulations
Michael Fechtelkord, Astrid Diekmann, and Ulrich Bismayer

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1833

Chemical and structural variations at augite (100) deformation twin boundaries
Shouliang Zhang and David R. Veblen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1838

Comparative compressibility and structural behavior of spinel MgAl2O4 at high pressures: The independency on the degree of cation order
F. Nestola, T. Boffa Ballaran, T. Balic-Zunic, F. Princivalle, L. Secco, and A. Dal Negro

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1844

Multiple breakdown and chemical equilibrium of silicic clinopyroxene under extreme metamorphic conditions in the Kontum Massif, central Vietnam
Nobuhiko Nakano, Yasuhito Osanai, and Masaaki Owada

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1856

Direct EXAFS evidence for incorporation of As5+ in the tetrahedral site of natural andraditic garnet
J.M. Charnock, D.A. Polya, A.G. Gault, and R.A. Wogelius

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1875

Scandium-45 NMR of pyrope-grossular garnets: Resolution of multiple scandium sites and comparison with X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Namjun Kim, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Simona Quartieri, and Roberta Oberti

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1881

Partitioning of trace elements among coexisting crystals, melt, and supercritical fluid during isobaric crystallization and melting
Frank J. Spera, Wendy A. Bohrson, Christy B. Till, and Mark S. Ghiorso

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1899

Thermal diffusivity of aluminous spinels and magnetite at elevated temperature with implications for heat transport in Earth’s transition zone
Anne M. Hofmeister

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1912

High-pressure structure and bonding in CaIrO3: The structure model of MgSiO3 post-perovskite investigated with time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction
C. David Martin, Ronald I. Smith, William G. Marshall, and John B. Parise

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1919

Application of major- and trace-element geochemistry to refine U-Pb zircon, and Sm/Nd or Lu/Hf sampling targets for geochronology of HP and UHP eclogites, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
Kurt Hollocher, Peter Robinson, M.P. Terry, and Emily Walsh

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1925

Measurement of U-Pb ages of uraninite and davidite by laser ablation-HR-ICP-MS
Don Chipley, Paul A. Polito, and T. Kurtis Kyser

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1936

A modeling approach to understanding the role of microstructure development on crystal-size distributions and on recovering crystal-size distributions from thin slices
Roddy Amenta, Anne Ewing, Amy Jensen, Sarah Roberts, Krista Stevens, Michelle Summa, Stephanie Weaver, and Paxton Wertz

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1946

Neptunium substitution in synthetic uranophane and soddyite
Amanda L. Klingensmith and Peter C. Burns

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1952

Coexistence of twisted and untwisted crystals: An impurity/structural order model with implications for agate patterns
J. Comer and P. Ortoleva

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1958

Intracrystalline boron isotope partitioning in illite-smectite: Testing the geothermometer
Lynda B. Williams, Amanda Turner, and Richard L. Hervig

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1978

Dissolution of radiation-damaged zircon in lateritic soils
Simon Delattre, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Rodney C. Ewing, Jean-Loup Boeglin, Jean-Jacques Braun, Etienne Balan, and Georges Calas

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

1998

Re-examination of berlinite (AlPO4) from the Cioclovina Cave, Romania
Bogdan P. Onac and Herta S. Effenberger

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

BOOK REVIEW

2006

BOOK REVIEW: Energy Dispersive Spectrometry of Common Rock Forming Minerals by Kenneth P. Severin; Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), 225 p., spiral bound hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-2840-3
John Fournelle

Full Text     

2007

BOOK REVIEW: The Photo-Atlas of Minerals: Version 2.0 (DVD-ROM). The Gem & Mineral Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. (2006)
Carolyn Rose Rebbert

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