American Mineralogist

Volume 96, Issue no. 10 : October 2011

Letter

1650 Differential degassing of H2O, Cl, F, and S: Potential effects on lunar apatite
Gokce Ustunisik, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald Lindsley

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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

1425 Compressional wave velocity measurements through sandy sediments containing methane hydrate
Qin Zhang, Feng-Guang Li, Chang-Yu Sun, Qing-Ping Li, Xiang-Yang Wu, Bei Liu, and Guang-Jin Chen

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1467 Thermodynamic properties of alloys of gold-74/palladium-26 with variable amounts of iron and the use of Au-Pd-Fe alloys as containers for experimental petrology
J. Brian Balta, John R. Beckett, and Paul D. Asimow

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1475 A first-principles investigation of hydrous defects and IR frequencies in forsterite: The case for Si vacancies
Koichiro Umemoto, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Marc M. Hirschmann, David L. Kohlstedt, and Anthony C. Withers

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1480 Estimating compositions of natural ringwoodite in the heavily shocked Grove Mountains 052049 meteorite from Raman spectra
L. Feng, Y. Lin, S. Hu, L. Xu, and B. Miao

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1495 The compression pathway of quartz
Richard M. Thompson, Robert T. Downs, and Przemyslaw Dera

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1512 The effect of polymorphic structure on the structural and chemical stability of yttrium disilicates
Evgeny Galunin, Miquel Vidal, and Mar??a D. Alba

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1521 Diffusion in yttrium aluminium garnet at the nanometer-scale: Insight into the effective grain boundary width
Katharina Marquardt, Quentin M. Ramasse, Christian Kisielowski, and Richard Wirth

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1530 Elasticity and anisotropy of Fe3C at high pressures
Mainak Mookherjee

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1537 Raman spectroscopy of titanomagnetites: Calibration of the intensity of Raman peaks as a sensitive indicator for their Ti content
Pavel Zinin, Lisa Tatsumi-Petrochilos, Lydie Bonal, Tayro Acosta, Julia Hammer, Stuart Gilder, and Mike Fuller

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1568 Quantum-mechanical calculations of the Raman spectra of Mg- and Fe-cordierite
Reinhard Kaindl, Daniel M. T??bbens, and Udo Haefeker

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1575 Coarsening kinetics of coexisting peristerite and film microperthite over 104 to 105 years
Ian Parsons and John D. Fitz Gerald

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1585 Local structure variations observed in orthoenstatite at high pressures
Dongzhou Zhang, Jennifer M. Jackson, Wolfgang Sturhahn, and Yuming Xiao

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1593 Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Mami Shimokawa, Noriaki Nakayama, Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Maki Okube, and Akira Yoshiasa

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1606 Effect of hydration on the single-crystal elasticity of Fe-bearing wadsleyite to 12 GPa
Zhu Mao, Steven D. Jacobsen, Daniel J. Frost, Catherine A. McCammon, Erik H. Hauri, and Thomas S. Duffy

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1613 Early Proterozoic weathering processes under low O2 conditions reconstructed from a 2.45 Ga paleosol in Pronto, Canada
Takashi Murakami, Takeshi Kasama, and Satoshi Utsunomiya

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1630 The development of shape- and crystallographic-preferred orientation in CaPtO3 post-perovskite deformed in pure shear
Richard McCormack, David P. Dobson, Nicolas P. Walte, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ian G. Wood

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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

1433

The turquoise-chalcosiderite Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O solid-solution series: A Mössbauer spectroscopy, XRD, EMPA, and FTIR study
Yassir A. Abdu, Sharon K. Hull, Mostafa Fayek, and Frank C. Hawthorne

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1443

Variability in sepiolite: Diffraction studies
Manuel Sánchez del Río, Emilia García-Romero, Mercedes Suárez, Iván da Silva, Luis Fuentes-Montero, and Gema Martínez-Criado

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1455

Rankamaite from the Urubu pegmatite, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Crystal chemistry and Rietveld refinement
Daniel Atencio, Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho, Stuart J. Mills, José M.V. Coutinho, Sara B. Honorato, Alejandro P. Ayala, Javier Ellena, and Marcelo B. de Andrade

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1461

Zeolitic-type Brønsted-Lowry sites distribution imaged on clinochlore
Giovanni Valdrè, Sergio Tosoni, and Daniele Moro

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1490

Phase stability and compression study of (Fe0.89,Ni0.11)3S up to pressure of the Earth’s core
Takeshi Sakai, Eiji Ohtani, Hidenori Terasaki, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Masaaki Miyahara, and Masahiko Nishijima

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1503

Experimental investigations into the silicification of olivine: Implications for the reaction mechanism and acid neutralization
Helen E. King, Oliver Plümper, Thorsten Geisler, and Andrew Putnis

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1547

Experimental determination of stability relations between monazite, fluorapatite, allanite, and REE-epidote as a function of pressure, temperature, and fluid composition
Bartosz Budzyń, Daniel E. Harlov, Michael L. Williams, and Michael J. Jercinovic

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1624

Eliseevite, Na1.5Li[Ti2Si4O12.5(OH)1.5]·2H2O, a new microporous titanosilicate from the Lovozero alkaline massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)
Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ekaterina A. Selivanova, Julia A. Korchak, Yuri P. Men’shikov, Svetlana V. Drogobuzhskaya, and Oleg A. Zalkind

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1662

Memorial of Rustum Roy, 1924–2010
Sridhar Komarneni

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1650

Differential degassing of H2O, Cl, F, and S: Potential effects on lunar apatite
Gokce Ustunisik, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald Lindsley

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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY

1636

An experimental study of phosphorous and aluminosilicate speciation in and partitioning between aqueous fluids and silicate melts determined in-situ at high temperature and pressure
Bj??rn O. Mysen

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1425

Compressional wave velocity measurements through sandy sediments containing methane hydrate
Qin Zhang, Feng-Guang Li, Chang-Yu Sun, Qing-Ping Li, Xiang-Yang Wu, Bei Liu, and Guang-Jin Chen

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1467

Thermodynamic properties of alloys of gold-74/palladium-26 with variable amounts of iron and the use of Au-Pd-Fe alloys as containers for experimental petrology
J. Brian Balta, John R. Beckett, and Paul D. Asimow

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1475

A first-principles investigation of hydrous defects and IR frequencies in forsterite: The case for Si vacancies
Koichiro Umemoto, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Marc M. Hirschmann, David L. Kohlstedt, and Anthony C. Withers

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1480

Estimating compositions of natural ringwoodite in the heavily shocked Grove Mountains 052049 meteorite from Raman spectra
L. Feng, Y. Lin, S. Hu, L. Xu, and B. Miao

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1495

The compression pathway of quartz
Richard M. Thompson, Robert T. Downs, and Przemyslaw Dera

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1512

The effect of polymorphic structure on the structural and chemical stability of yttrium disilicates
Evgeny Galunin, Miquel Vidal, and Mar??a D. Alba

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1521

Diffusion in yttrium aluminium garnet at the nanometer-scale: Insight into the effective grain boundary width
Katharina Marquardt, Quentin M. Ramasse, Christian Kisielowski, and Richard Wirth

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1530

Elasticity and anisotropy of Fe3C at high pressures
Mainak Mookherjee

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1537

Raman spectroscopy of titanomagnetites: Calibration of the intensity of Raman peaks as a sensitive indicator for their Ti content
Pavel Zinin, Lisa Tatsumi-Petrochilos, Lydie Bonal, Tayro Acosta, Julia Hammer, Stuart Gilder, and Mike Fuller

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1568

Quantum-mechanical calculations of the Raman spectra of Mg- and Fe-cordierite
Reinhard Kaindl, Daniel M. T??bbens, and Udo Haefeker

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1575

Coarsening kinetics of coexisting peristerite and film microperthite over 104 to 105 years
Ian Parsons and John D. Fitz Gerald

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1585

Local structure variations observed in orthoenstatite at high pressures
Dongzhou Zhang, Jennifer M. Jackson, Wolfgang Sturhahn, and Yuming Xiao

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1593

Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Mami Shimokawa, Noriaki Nakayama, Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Maki Okube, and Akira Yoshiasa

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1606

Effect of hydration on the single-crystal elasticity of Fe-bearing wadsleyite to 12 GPa
Zhu Mao, Steven D. Jacobsen, Daniel J. Frost, Catherine A. McCammon, Erik H. Hauri, and Thomas S. Duffy

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1613

Early Proterozoic weathering processes under low O2 conditions reconstructed from a 2.45 Ga paleosol in Pronto, Canada
Takashi Murakami, Takeshi Kasama, and Satoshi Utsunomiya

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1630

The development of shape- and crystallographic-preferred orientation in CaPtO3 post-perovskite deformed in pure shear
Richard McCormack, David P. Dobson, Nicolas P. Walte, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ian G. Wood

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

1654

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

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BOOK REVIEW

1664

BOOK REVIEW, NANOSCALE: VISUALIZING AN INVISIBLE WORLD by Kenneth S. Deffreyes and Stephen E. Deffreyes
John C. Schumacher

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