American Mineralogist

Volume 93, Issue no. 1112 : November - December 2008

Letter

1929 Continuous time-resolved X-ray diffraction of the biocatalyzed reduction of Mn oxide
Timothy B. Fischer, Peter J. Heaney, Je-Hun Jang, Daniel E. Ross, Susan L. Brantley, Jeffrey E. Post, and Ming Tien

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1933 Igneous Ca-rich pyroxene in comet 81P/Wild 2
Hugues Leroux, Damien Jacob, Julien Stodolna, Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, and Michael E. Zolensky

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1937 A unique glimpse into asteroidal melting processes in the early solar system from the Graves Nunatak 06128/06129 achondrites
C.K. Shearer, P.V. Burger, C.R. Neal, Z. Sharp, L.E. Borg, L. Spivak-Birndorf, M. Wadhwa, J.J. Papike, J.M. Karner, A.M. Gaffney, J. Shafer, B.P. Weiss, J. Geissman, and V.A. Fernandes

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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

1771 High- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Past results and future prospects
W.G. Ernst and J.G. Liou

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1799 Nano to macroscale biomineral architecture of red coral (Corallium rubrum)
Daniel Vielzeuf, Joaquim Garrabou, Alain Baronnet, Olivier Grauby, and Christian Marschal

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1816 Timescales of spherulite crystallization in obsidian inferred from water concentration profiles
Jonathan M. Castro, Pierre Beck, Hugh Tuffen, Alexander R.L. Nichols, Donald B. Dingwell, and Michael C. Martin

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1823 Compression of single-crystal magnesium oxide to 118 GPa and a ruby pressure gauge for helium pressure media
Steven D. Jacobsen, Christopher M. Holl, Kimberly A. Adams, Rebecca A. Fischer, Emily S. Martin, Craig R. Bina, Jung-Fu Lin, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Atsushi Kubo, and Przemyslaw Dera

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1851 Crystal chemistry of macfallite: Relationships to sursassite and pumpellyite
Mariko Nagashima, Nouri-Said Rahmoun, Evgeny V. Alekseev, Charles A. Geiger, Thomas Armbruster, and Masahide Akasaka

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1858 Bacterially enhanced dissolution of meta-autunite
Christina M. Smeaton, Christopher G. Weisener, Peter C. Burns, Brian J. Fryer, and David A. Fowle

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1874 Structural transition of post-spinel phases CaMn2O4, CaFe2O4, and CaTi2O4 under high pressures up to 80 GPa
T. Yamanaka, A. Uchida, and Y. Nakamoto

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1882 Pressure-temperature stability studies of FeOOH using X-ray diffraction
A.E. Gleason, R. Jeanloz, and M. Kunz

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1886 The parental melt of lherzolitic shergottite ALH 77005: A study of rehomogenized melt inclusions
Christina Calvin and Malcolm Rutherford

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1899 Ferric iron content in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and post-perovskite at deep lower mantle conditions
Ryosuke Sinmyo, Haruka Ozawa, Kei Hirose, Akira Yasuhara, Noriaki Endo, Nagayoshi Sata, and Yasuo Ohishi

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1921 Pyroxmangite: A high-pressure single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, F. Nestola, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

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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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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY

1787

Crystal structure of a synthetic tin-selenium representative of the cylindrite structure type
E. Makovicky, V. Petříček, M. Dušek, and D. Topa

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1829

In situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray study of aegirine, NaFe3+Si2O6, and the role of M1 size in clinopyroxene compressibility
Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, Richard M. Thompson, and Günther J. Redhammer

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1838

Oxygen fugacity, temperature reproducibility, and H2O contents of nominally anhydrous piston-cylinder experiments using graphite capsules
Etienne Médard, Catherine A. McCammon, Jay A. Barr, and Timothy L. Grove

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1845

Coesite inclusions in garnet from eclogitic rocks in western Tianshan, northwest China: Convincing proof of UHP metamorphism
Zeng Lü, Lifei Zhang, Jinxue Du, and Kurt Bucher

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1865

Common gem opal: An investigation of micro- to nano-structure
Eloïse Gaillou, Emmanuel Fritsch, Bertha Aguilar-Reyes, Benjamin Rondeau, Jeffrey Post, Alain Barreau, and Mikhail Ostroumov

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1903

Lakargiite CaZrO3: A new mineral of the perovskite group from the North Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Viktor M. Gazeev, Thomas Armbruster, Aleksander E. Zadov, Irina O. Galuskina, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Milen Kadiyski, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, Roman Wrzalik, and Antoni Winiarski

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1911

Xocolatlite, Ca2Mn4+2Te2O12·H2O, a new tellurate related to kuranakhite: Description and measurement of Te oxidation state by XANES spectroscopy
Pascal V. Grundler, Joël Brugger, Nicolas Meisser, Stefan Ansermet, Stacey Borg, Barbara Etschmann, Denis Testemale, and Trudy Bolin

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1721

Structure of Mg- and Mg/Ca aluminosilicate glasses: 27Al NMR and Raman spectroscopy investigations
Daniel R. Neuville, Laurent Cormier, Valérie Montouillout, Pierre Florian, Francis Millot, Jean-Claude Rifflet, and Dominique Massiot

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1760

Solubility and solution mechanisms of NOH volatiles in silicate melts at high pressure and temperature—amine groups and hydrogen fugacity
Bjorn O. Mysen, Shigeru Yamashita, and Nadezda Chertkova

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LETTER

1929

Continuous time-resolved X-ray diffraction of the biocatalyzed reduction of Mn oxide
Timothy B. Fischer, Peter J. Heaney, Je-Hun Jang, Daniel E. Ross, Susan L. Brantley, Jeffrey E. Post, and Ming Tien

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1933

Igneous Ca-rich pyroxene in comet 81P/Wild 2
Hugues Leroux, Damien Jacob, Julien Stodolna, Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, and Michael E. Zolensky

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1937

A unique glimpse into asteroidal melting processes in the early solar system from the Graves Nunatak 06128/06129 achondrites
C.K. Shearer, P.V. Burger, C.R. Neal, Z. Sharp, L.E. Borg, L. Spivak-Birndorf, M. Wadhwa, J.J. Papike, J.M. Karner, A.M. Gaffney, J. Shafer, B.P. Weiss, J. Geissman, and V.A. Fernandes

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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY

1732

Constrained interactions, rigidity, adaptative networks, and their role for the description of silicates
Matthieu Micoulaut

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1749

Quantification of the kinetics of iron oxidation in silicate melts using Raman spectroscopy and assessment of the role of oxygen diffusion
Mathieu Roskosz, Michael J. Toplis, Daniel R. Neuville, and Bjorn O. Mysen

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1693

REVIEW PAPER: Mineral evolution
Robert M. Hazen, Dominic Papineau, Wouter Bleeker, Robert T. Downs, John M. Ferry, Timothy J. McCoy, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, and Hexiong Yang

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1771

High- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Past results and future prospects
W.G. Ernst and J.G. Liou

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1799

Nano to macroscale biomineral architecture of red coral (Corallium rubrum)
Daniel Vielzeuf, Joaquim Garrabou, Alain Baronnet, Olivier Grauby, and Christian Marschal

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1816

Timescales of spherulite crystallization in obsidian inferred from water concentration profiles
Jonathan M. Castro, Pierre Beck, Hugh Tuffen, Alexander R.L. Nichols, Donald B. Dingwell, and Michael C. Martin

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1823

Compression of single-crystal magnesium oxide to 118 GPa and a ruby pressure gauge for helium pressure media
Steven D. Jacobsen, Christopher M. Holl, Kimberly A. Adams, Rebecca A. Fischer, Emily S. Martin, Craig R. Bina, Jung-Fu Lin, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Atsushi Kubo, and Przemyslaw Dera

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1851

Crystal chemistry of macfallite: Relationships to sursassite and pumpellyite
Mariko Nagashima, Nouri-Said Rahmoun, Evgeny V. Alekseev, Charles A. Geiger, Thomas Armbruster, and Masahide Akasaka

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1858

Bacterially enhanced dissolution of meta-autunite
Christina M. Smeaton, Christopher G. Weisener, Peter C. Burns, Brian J. Fryer, and David A. Fowle

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1874

Structural transition of post-spinel phases CaMn2O4, CaFe2O4, and CaTi2O4 under high pressures up to 80 GPa
T. Yamanaka, A. Uchida, and Y. Nakamoto

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1882

Pressure-temperature stability studies of FeOOH using X-ray diffraction
A.E. Gleason, R. Jeanloz, and M. Kunz

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1886

The parental melt of lherzolitic shergottite ALH 77005: A study of rehomogenized melt inclusions
Christina Calvin and Malcolm Rutherford

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1899

Ferric iron content in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and post-perovskite at deep lower mantle conditions
Ryosuke Sinmyo, Haruka Ozawa, Kei Hirose, Akira Yasuhara, Noriaki Endo, Nagayoshi Sata, and Yasuo Ohishi

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1921

Pyroxmangite: A high-pressure single-crystal study
P.F. Zanazzi, F. Nestola, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

1941

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen, Glenn Poirier, and Kimberly T. Tait

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BOOK REVIEW

1692

BOOK REVIEW: POST-PEROVSKITE: THE LAST MANTLE PHASE TRANSITION. K. Hirose, J. Brodholt, T. Lay, D. Yuen, Eds. (2007) American Geophyscial Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, 174. 350 pages, hardbound. ISBN 13: 978-0-87590-439-9.
George Helffrich

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