American Mineralogist

Volume 96, Issue no. 07 : July 2011

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter
REGULAR ARTICLES

953 Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research
Robert M. Hazen, Andrey Bekker, David L. Bish, Wouter Bleeker, Robert T. Downs, James Farquhar, John M. Ferry, Edward S. Grew, Andrew H. Knoll, Dominic Papineau, Jolyon P. Ralph, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, and John W. Valley

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964 Rutile inclusions in quartz crystals record decreasing temperature and pressure during the exhumation of the Su-Lu UHP metamorphic belt in Donghai, East China
Xiaofeng Li, Brian Rusk, Rucheng Wang, Yuichi Morishita, Yasushi Watanabe, and Zhenyu Chen

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974 A first-principles study of the phase transition from Holl-I to Holl-II in the composition KAlSi3O8
Liwei Deng, Xi Liu, Hong Liu, and Yigang Zhang

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992 Thermoelastic and thermodynamic properties of plagioclase feldspars from thermal expansion measurements
Mario Tribaudino, Marco Bruno, Fabrizio Nestola, Daria Pasqual, and Ross J. Angel

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1003 Quantitative determination of chrysotile in massive serpentinites using DTA: Implications for asbestos determinations
C. Viti, C. Giacobbe, and A.F. Gualtieri

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1012 In situ observation of the crystallization pressure induced by halite crystal growth in a microfluidic channel
Nandini Sengupta, Pulak Sengupta, and Himanshu Kumar SachanKotaro Sekine, Atsushi Okamoto, and Kazuo Hayashi

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1020 Microstructures of the larval shell of a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, investigated by FIB-TEM technique
Naoki Yokoo, Michio Suzuki, Kazuko Saruwatari, Hideo Aoki, Katsuaki Watanabe, Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

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1039 The effect of Fe on olivine H2O storage capacity: Consequences for H2O in the martian mantle
A.C. Withers, M.M. Hirschmann, and T.J. Tenner

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1054 Kinetics of thermal transformation of partially dehydroxylated pyrophyllite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Douglas K. McCarty

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1079 Incorporation mechanisms of Ta and Nb in zircon and implications for pegmatitic systems
Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Francois Holtz, Wanja Dziony, Thomas Ludwig, and Hans-Peter Meyer

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1090 Variable-temperature 27Al and 29Si NMR studies of synthetic forsterite and Fe-bearing Dora Maira pyrope garnet: Temperature dependence and mechanisms of paramagnetically shifted peaks
Aaron C. Palke and Jonathan F. Stebbins

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1100 Calibrating Ti concentrations in quartz for SIMS determinations using NIST silicate glasses and application to the TitaniQ geothermobarometer
Whitney M. Behr, Jay B. Thomas, and Richard L. Hervig

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1112 Evidence for boron incorporation into the serpentine crystal structure
Sonja Pabst, Thomas Zack, Ivan P. Savov, Thomas Ludwig, Detlef Rost, and Edward P. Vicenzi

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1129 Microtextures, microchemistry, and mineralogy of basaltic glass alteration, Jeju Island, Korea, with implications for elemental behavior
Gi Young Jeong and Young Kwan Sohn

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1148 Orientation of channel carbonate ions in apatite: Effect of pressure and composition
Michael E. Fleet, Xiaoyang Liu, and Xi Liu

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1171 Identification and characterization of nanosized tripuhyite in soil near Sb mine tailings
Satoshi Mitsunobu, Yoshio Takahashi, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Matthew A. Marcus, Yasuko Terada, Takeru Iwamura, and Masahiro Sakata

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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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REGULAR ARTICLE

983

Sejkoraite-(Y), a new member of the zippeite group containing trivalent cations from Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal), Czech Republic: Description and crystal structure refinement
Jakub Plášil, Michal Dušek, Milan Novák, Jiří Čejka, Ivana Císařová, and Radek Škoda

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1028

Magnesium quantification in calcites [(Ca,Mg)CO3] by Rietveld-based XRD analysis: Revisiting a well-established method
Jürgen Titschack, Friedlinde Goetz-Neunhoeffer, and Jürgen Neubauer

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1070

Dehydration of the natural zeolite goosecreekite CaAl2Si6O16·5H2O upon stepwise heating: A single-crystal and powder X-ray study
Eva Wadoski, Thomas Armbruster, Biljana Lazic, and Martin Fisch

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1107

Crystal structure of Na3Fe(SO4)3: A high-temperature product (~400 °C) of sideronatrite [Na2Fe(SO4)2OH·3H2O]
Fernando Scordari, Gennaro Ventruti, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, and Andrea Lausi

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1120

Structure refinement of Ag-free heyrovskýite from Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy)
D. Pinto, T. Balić-Žunić, A. Garavelli, and F. Vurro

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1158

Thermoelastic property and high-pressure stability of Fe7C3: Implication for iron-carbide in the Earth’s core
Yoichi Nakajima, Eiichi Takahashi, Nagayoshi Sata, Yu Nishihara, Kei Hirose, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Yasuo Ohishi

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1166

Yttriaite-(Y): The natural occurrence of Y2O3 from the Bol’shaya Pol’ya River, Subpolar Urals, Russia
Stuart J. Mills, Pavel M. Kartashov, Chi Ma, George R. Rossman, Margarita I. Novgorodova, Anthony R. Kampf, and Mati Raudsepp

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1182

High-pressure I2/cP21/c phase transformation in SrAl2Si2O8 feldspar
Francesco Pandolfo, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Fabrizio Nestola, Monika Koch Müller, Maria Mrosko, and Emiliano Bruno

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1186

Crystal structure of uchucchacuaite, AgMnPb3Sb5S12, and its relationship with ramdohrite and fizélyite
H. Yang, R.T. Downs, S.H. Evans, M.N. Feinglos, and K.T. Tait

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953

Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research
Robert M. Hazen, Andrey Bekker, David L. Bish, Wouter Bleeker, Robert T. Downs, James Farquhar, John M. Ferry, Edward S. Grew, Andrew H. Knoll, Dominic Papineau, Jolyon P. Ralph, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, and John W. Valley

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964

Rutile inclusions in quartz crystals record decreasing temperature and pressure during the exhumation of the Su-Lu UHP metamorphic belt in Donghai, East China
Xiaofeng Li, Brian Rusk, Rucheng Wang, Yuichi Morishita, Yasushi Watanabe, and Zhenyu Chen

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974

A first-principles study of the phase transition from Holl-I to Holl-II in the composition KAlSi3O8
Liwei Deng, Xi Liu, Hong Liu, and Yigang Zhang

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992

Thermoelastic and thermodynamic properties of plagioclase feldspars from thermal expansion measurements
Mario Tribaudino, Marco Bruno, Fabrizio Nestola, Daria Pasqual, and Ross J. Angel

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1003

Quantitative determination of chrysotile in massive serpentinites using DTA: Implications for asbestos determinations
C. Viti, C. Giacobbe, and A.F. Gualtieri

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1012

In situ observation of the crystallization pressure induced by halite crystal growth in a microfluidic channel
Nandini Sengupta, Pulak Sengupta, and Himanshu Kumar SachanKotaro Sekine, Atsushi Okamoto, and Kazuo Hayashi

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1020

Microstructures of the larval shell of a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, investigated by FIB-TEM technique
Naoki Yokoo, Michio Suzuki, Kazuko Saruwatari, Hideo Aoki, Katsuaki Watanabe, Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

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1039

The effect of Fe on olivine H2O storage capacity: Consequences for H2O in the martian mantle
A.C. Withers, M.M. Hirschmann, and T.J. Tenner

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1054

Kinetics of thermal transformation of partially dehydroxylated pyrophyllite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Douglas K. McCarty

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1079

Incorporation mechanisms of Ta and Nb in zircon and implications for pegmatitic systems
Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Francois Holtz, Wanja Dziony, Thomas Ludwig, and Hans-Peter Meyer

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1090

Variable-temperature 27Al and 29Si NMR studies of synthetic forsterite and Fe-bearing Dora Maira pyrope garnet: Temperature dependence and mechanisms of paramagnetically shifted peaks
Aaron C. Palke and Jonathan F. Stebbins

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1100

Calibrating Ti concentrations in quartz for SIMS determinations using NIST silicate glasses and application to the TitaniQ geothermobarometer
Whitney M. Behr, Jay B. Thomas, and Richard L. Hervig

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1112

Evidence for boron incorporation into the serpentine crystal structure
Sonja Pabst, Thomas Zack, Ivan P. Savov, Thomas Ludwig, Detlef Rost, and Edward P. Vicenzi

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1129

Microtextures, microchemistry, and mineralogy of basaltic glass alteration, Jeju Island, Korea, with implications for elemental behavior
Gi Young Jeong and Young Kwan Sohn

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1148

Orientation of channel carbonate ions in apatite: Effect of pressure and composition
Michael E. Fleet, Xiaoyang Liu, and Xi Liu

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1171

Identification and characterization of nanosized tripuhyite in soil near Sb mine tailings
Satoshi Mitsunobu, Yoshio Takahashi, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Matthew A. Marcus, Yasuko Terada, Takeru Iwamura, and Masahiro Sakata

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BOOK REVIEW

1190

BOOK REVIEW, QUANTITATIVE MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH by Donald A. Singer and W. David Menzie. (2010) Oxford University Press, 232 pages
Matthew Field

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