American Mineralogist

Volume 94, Issue no. 04 : April 2009

Letter

626 Forsterite, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite (Mg2SiO4): 29Si NMR constraints on structural disorder and effects of paramagnetic impurity ions
Jonathan F. Stebbins, Wendy R. Panero, Joseph R. Smyth, and Daniel J. Frost

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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

415 Growth controls in colloform pyrite
Craig D. Barrie, Adrian J. Boyce, Alan P. Boyle, Patrick J. Williams, Kevin Blake, Takahiko Ogawara, Junji Akai, and David J. Prior

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430 Parageneses and Th-U distributions among allanite, monazite, and xenotime in Barrovian-type metapelites, Imjingang belt, central Korea
Yoonsup Kim, Keewook Yi, and Moonsup Cho

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439 Magmatic vs. hydrothermal origins for zircon associated with tantalum mineralization in the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada
Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Frank Melcher, and Richard Wirth

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451 Molecular conformation and anion configuration variations for As4S4 and As4Se4 in an anion-substituted solid solution
Atsushi Kyono

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461 Low-pressure clino- to high-pressure clinoenstatite phase transition: A phonon-related mechanism
Yonggang G. Yu and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

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467 Coordination study of rare earth elements on Fe oxyhydroxide and Mn dioxides: Part I. Influence of a multi-electron excitation on EXAFS analyses of La, Pr, Nd, and Sm
Atsuyuki Ohta, Hiroyuki Kagi, Masaharu Nomura, Hiroshi Tsuno, and Iwao Kawabe

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476 Coordination study of rare earth elements on Fe oxyhydroxide and Mn dioxides: Part II. Correspondence of structural change to irregular variations of partitioning coefficients and tetrad effect variations appearing in interatomic distances
Atsuyuki Ohta, Hiroyuki Kagi, Masaharu Nomura, Hiroshi Tsuno, and Iwao Kawabe

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494 A thermodynamic model for the plagioclase-liquid hygrometer/thermometer
Rebecca A. Lange, Holli M. Frey, and Jacob Hector

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507 Solid-state NMR and IR spectroscopic investigation of the role of structural water and F in carbonate-rich fluorapatite
Harris E. Mason, Francis M. McCubbin, Alexander Smirnov, and Brian L. Phillips

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517 Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: A HRTEM study
Cristiana Liana Ciobanu, Allan Pring, Nigel John Cook, Peter Self, David Jefferson, Gabriel Ionel Dima, and Volodymir Melnikov

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535 Stability of pargasite during ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: A consequence of titanium and REE partitioning?
K. Sajeev, Y. Osanai, Y. Kon, and T. Itaya

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547 Raman spectroscopic and microscopic criteria for the distinction of microdiamonds in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from diamonds in sample preparation materials
Maria Perraki, Andrey V. Korsakov, David C. Smith, and Evripidis Mposkos

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557 Lattice compression and structural behavior of NaVSi2O6 clinopyroxene to 11 GPa
Angela Ullrich, Ronald Miletich, Fabrizio Nestola, Christian Weikusat, and Haruo Ohashi

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565 A predictive model for the enthalpies of hydration of zeolites
Philippe Vieillard and Romain Mathieu

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578 Thermal decomposition of calcite: Mechanisms of formation and textural evolution of CaO nanocrystals
Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro, Encarnacion Ruiz-Agudo, Ana Luque, Alejandro B. Rodriguez-Navarro, and Miguel Ortega-Huertas

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594 Synchrotron M??ssbauer spectroscopic study of ferropericlase at high pressures and temperatures
Jung-Fu Lin, Alexander G. Gavriliuk, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Steven D. Jacobsen, Jiyong Zhao, Michael Lerche, and Michael Hu

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600 Effective radii of noble gas atoms in silicates from first-principles molecular simulation
Liqun Zhang, James A. Van Orman, and Daniel J. Lacks

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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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LETTER

409

Acid production by FeSO4·nH2O dissolution and implications for terrestrial and martian aquatic systems
Joel A. Hurowitz, Nicholas J. Tosca, and M. Darby Dyar

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487

Aluminocerite-Ce: A new species from Baveno,Italy: Description and crystal-structure determination
Fabrizio Nestola, Alessandro Guastoni, Fernando Cámara, Luciano Secco, Alberto Dal Negro, Danilo Pedron, and Anton Beran

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609

Fettelite, [Ag6As2S7][Ag10HgAs2S8] from Chañarcillo, Chile: Crystal structure, pseudosymmetry, twinning, and revised chemical formula
Luca Bindi, Frank N. Keutsch, Carl A. Francis, and Silvio Menchetti

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616

High-pressure phase transformation in LiFeGe2O6 pyroxene
Fabrizio Nestola, Günther J. Redhammer, Martha G. Pamato, Luciano Secco, and Alberto Dal Negro

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622

Determination of the crystal structure of sanderite, MgSO4·2H2O, by X-ray powder diffraction and the charge flipping method
Hongwei Ma, David L. Bish, Hsiu-Wen Wang, and Steve J. Chipera

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630

Crystal structure and Raman spectrum of a high-pressure Li-rich majoritic garnet, (Li2Mg)Si2(SiO4)3
Hexiong Yang, Jürgen Konzett, Robert T. Downs, and Daniel J. Frost

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634

Quasi-ice-like CP behavior of molecular H2O in hemimorphite Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O: CP and entropy of confined H2O in microporous silicates
Charles A. Geiger and Edgar Dachs

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641

Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2008
Ho-kwang “David” Mao

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626

Forsterite, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite (Mg2SiO4): 29Si NMR constraints on structural disorder and effects of paramagnetic impurity ions
Jonathan F. Stebbins, Wendy R. Panero, Joseph R. Smyth, and Daniel J. Frost

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REGULAR ARTICLE

415

Growth controls in colloform pyrite
Craig D. Barrie, Adrian J. Boyce, Alan P. Boyle, Patrick J. Williams, Kevin Blake, Takahiko Ogawara, Junji Akai, and David J. Prior

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430

Parageneses and Th-U distributions among allanite, monazite, and xenotime in Barrovian-type metapelites, Imjingang belt, central Korea
Yoonsup Kim, Keewook Yi, and Moonsup Cho

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439

Magmatic vs. hydrothermal origins for zircon associated with tantalum mineralization in the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada
Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Frank Melcher, and Richard Wirth

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451

Molecular conformation and anion configuration variations for As4S4 and As4Se4 in an anion-substituted solid solution
Atsushi Kyono

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461

Low-pressure clino- to high-pressure clinoenstatite phase transition: A phonon-related mechanism
Yonggang G. Yu and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

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467

Coordination study of rare earth elements on Fe oxyhydroxide and Mn dioxides: Part I. Influence of a multi-electron excitation on EXAFS analyses of La, Pr, Nd, and Sm
Atsuyuki Ohta, Hiroyuki Kagi, Masaharu Nomura, Hiroshi Tsuno, and Iwao Kawabe

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476

Coordination study of rare earth elements on Fe oxyhydroxide and Mn dioxides: Part II. Correspondence of structural change to irregular variations of partitioning coefficients and tetrad effect variations appearing in interatomic distances
Atsuyuki Ohta, Hiroyuki Kagi, Masaharu Nomura, Hiroshi Tsuno, and Iwao Kawabe

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494

A thermodynamic model for the plagioclase-liquid hygrometer/thermometer
Rebecca A. Lange, Holli M. Frey, and Jacob Hector

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507

Solid-state NMR and IR spectroscopic investigation of the role of structural water and F in carbonate-rich fluorapatite
Harris E. Mason, Francis M. McCubbin, Alexander Smirnov, and Brian L. Phillips

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517

Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: A HRTEM study
Cristiana Liana Ciobanu, Allan Pring, Nigel John Cook, Peter Self, David Jefferson, Gabriel Ionel Dima, and Volodymir Melnikov

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535

Stability of pargasite during ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: A consequence of titanium and REE partitioning?
K. Sajeev, Y. Osanai, Y. Kon, and T. Itaya

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547

Raman spectroscopic and microscopic criteria for the distinction of microdiamonds in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from diamonds in sample preparation materials
Maria Perraki, Andrey V. Korsakov, David C. Smith, and Evripidis Mposkos

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557

Lattice compression and structural behavior of NaVSi2O6 clinopyroxene to 11 GPa
Angela Ullrich, Ronald Miletich, Fabrizio Nestola, Christian Weikusat, and Haruo Ohashi

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565

A predictive model for the enthalpies of hydration of zeolites
Philippe Vieillard and Romain Mathieu

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578

Thermal decomposition of calcite: Mechanisms of formation and textural evolution of CaO nanocrystals
Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro, Encarnacion Ruiz-Agudo, Ana Luque, Alejandro B. Rodriguez-Navarro, and Miguel Ortega-Huertas

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594

Synchrotron M??ssbauer spectroscopic study of ferropericlase at high pressures and temperatures
Jung-Fu Lin, Alexander G. Gavriliuk, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Steven D. Jacobsen, Jiyong Zhao, Michael Lerche, and Michael Hu

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600

Effective radii of noble gas atoms in silicates from first-principles molecular simulation
Liqun Zhang, James A. Van Orman, and Daniel J. Lacks

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

648

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

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AWARD

638

Presentation of the Roebling Medal for 2008 of Mineralogical Society of America to Bernard W. Evans
Donna L. Whitney

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639

Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Roebling Medal for 2008
Bernard W. Evans

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643

Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2008
James Badro

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644

Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Dana Medal for 2008 to Thomas Armbruster
Martin Kunz

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646

Acceptance of the Dana medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2008
Thomas Armbruster

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BOOK REVIEW

655

BOOK REVIEW: FLUID-FLUID INTERACTIONS. Axel Liebscher and Christoph A. Heinrich, Eds. (2007) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 65, 430 p. Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. ISBN 978-0-939950-77-5.
Bruce Yardley

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REVIEWERS

653

REVIEWERS 2008

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