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Characterization of deep weathering and nanoporosity development in shale—A neutron study
Lixin Jin, Gernot Rother, David R. Cole, David F.R. Mildner, Christopher J. Duffy, and Susan L. Brantley
541
Pressless split-sphere apparatus equipped with scaled-up Kawai-cell for mineralogical studies at 10–20 GPa
Anton Shatskiy, Yuriy M. Borzdov, Konstantin D. Litasov, Eiji Ohtani, Alexander F. Khokhryakov, Yuriy N. Pal’yanov, and Tomoo Katsura
549
Dislocation microstructures in majorite garnet experimentally deformed in the multi-anvil apparatus
Hélène Couvy, Patrick Cordier, and Jiuhua Chen
594
Zn-O tetrahedral bond length variations in normal spinel oxides
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Ulf Hålenius, and Henrik Skogby
617
A first record of strong structural relaxation of TO4 tetrahedra in a spinel solid solution
Ulf Hålenius, Ferdinando Bosi, and Henrik Skogby
646
Light-induced molecular change in HgI2·As4S4: Evidence by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy
P. Bonazzi, L. Bindi, M. Muniz-Miranda, L. Chelazzi, T. Rödl, and A. Pfitzner
675
Hazenite, KNaMg2(PO4)2·14H2O, a new biologically related phosphate mineral, from Mono Lake, California, U.S.A.
Hexiong Yang, Henry J. Sun, and Robert T. Downs
690
Amphibole asbestos soil contamination in the U.S.A.: A matter of definition
Brittani D. Thompson, Mickey E. Gunter, and Michael A. Wilson
MSA ROEBLING MEDAL LECTURE
457
The three partners of metamorphic petrology
Robert C. Newton
REGULAR ARTICLE
470
Relationship between structure, morphology, and carbon isotopic composition of graphite in marbles: Implications for calcite-graphite carbon isotope thermometry
M. Satish-Kumar, John A. Jaszczak, T. Hamamatsu, and H. Wada
486
Crystal structure, mosaicity, and strain analysis of Hawaiian olivines using in situ X-ray diffraction
Nicolas Vinet, Roberta L. Flemming, and Michael D. Higgins
513
Structural water in ferrihydrite and constraints this provides on possible structure models
Wenqian Xu, Douglas B. Hausner, Richard Harrington, Peter L. Lee, Daniel R. Strongin, and John B. Parise
521
Critical evaluation of the revised akdalaite model for ferrihydrite
A. Manceau
534
Neutron diffraction study of hydrogen in birnessite structures
Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Yunchul Cho
553
Density of carbonated peridotite magma at high pressure using an X-ray absorption method
Tatsuya Sakamaki, Eiji Ohtani, Satoru Urakawa, Hidenori Terasaki, and Yoshinori Katayama
558
Stability and bulk modulus of Ni3S, a new nickel sulfur compound, and the melting relations of the system Ni-NiS up to 10 GPa
Satoru Urakawa, Ryosuke Matsubara, Tomoo Katsura, Tohru Watanabe, and Takumi Kikegawa
566
Far-infrared spectra of synthetic [4][(Al2-xGax)(Si2-yGey)] (OH,OD,F)2 -kinoshitalite: Characterization and assignment of interlayer Ba-Oinner and Ba-Oouter stretching bands
Kiyotaka Ishida and Frank C. Hawthorne
577
High-temperature elasticity of polycrystalline orthoenstatite (MgSiO3)
Jennifer Kung, Ian Jackson, and Robert C. Liebermann
586
Anatomy of a metabentonite: Nucleation and growth of illite crystals and their coalescence into mixed-layer illite/smectite
D.D. Eberl, A.E. Blum, and M. Serravezza
599
A new thermodynamic analysis of the intergrowth of hedenbergite and magnetite with Ca-Fe-rich olivine
Jiawen Hu, Shide Mao, Guoqiang Du, Yunxia Wu, and Pu Zhang
609
Raman spectroscopic investigations of some Tl-sulfosalt minerals containing pyramidal (As,Sb)S3 groups
Sherif Kharbish
623
The high-pressure behavior of orthorhombic amphiboles
Mark D. Welch, G. Diego Gatta, and Nicola Rotiroti
631
XAS determination of the Fe local environment and oxidation state in phonolite glasses
Gabriele Giuli, Eleonora Paris, Kai-Uwe Hess, Donald B. Dingwell, Maria Rita Cicconi, Sigrid Griet Eeckhout, Karl Thomas Fehr, and Paola Valenti
637
Chemical variation and significance of micas from the Fregeneda-Almendra pegmatitic field (Central-Iberian Zone, Spain and Portugal)
Romeu Vieira, Encarnaci??n Roda-Robles, Alfonso Pesquera, and Alexandre Lima
654
Low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance studies on natural calumetite from Khetri copper mine, Rajasthan, India
G.N. Hemantha Kumar, G. Parthasarathy, and J. Lakshmana Rao
659
Chromatite and its Cr3+– and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert
Ella V. Sokol, Olga L. Gaskova, Svetlana N. Kokh, Olga A. Kozmenko, Yuri V. Seryotkin, Yevgeny Vapnik, and Michail N. Murashko
682
The fractional latent heat of crystallizing magmas
S.A. Morse
BOOK REVIEW
694
BOOK REVIEW: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING PETROLEUM RESOURCES by P.J. Lee. (2008) Oxford University Press. Hardback, 256 pages.
Peter King
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