American Mineralogist

Volume 97, Issue no. 10 : October 2012

Letter

1804 A natural photoelectrochemical cell for water splitting: Implications for early Earth and Mars
Carrick M. Eggleston, Justin R. Stern, Tess M. Strellis, and Bruce A. Parkinson

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1808 In situ observation of the breakdown of magnetite (Fe3O4) to Fe4O5 and hematite at high pressures and temperatures
Alan B. Woodland, Daniel J. Frost, Dmytro M. Trots, Kevin Klimm, and Mohamed Mezouar

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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

1574 A multi-domain gem-grade Brazilian apatite
Tom Baikie, Martin K. Schreyer, Chui Ling Wong, Stevin S. Pramana, Wim T. Klooster, Cristiano Ferraris, Garry J. McIntyre, and T.J. White

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1582 High-temperature structural behaviors of anhydrous wadsleyite and forsterite
Dmytro M. Trots, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Daniel J. Frost

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1591 Synthetic B-rich olenite: Correlations of single-crystal structural data
Andreas Ertl, Gerald Giester, Thomas Ludwig, Hans-Peter Meyer, and George R. Rossman

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1598 Rates and mechanism of Y, REE, and Cr diffusion in garnet
William D. Carlson

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1619 EPR discrimination of microcrystalline calcite geomaterials
Francesco Di Benedetto, Antonella Buccianti, Giordano Montegrossi, Massimo Innocenti, Carlo Andrea Massa, Luca A. Pardi, and Maurizio Romanelli

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1641 Long-term solid-phase fate of co-precipitated U(VI)-Fe(III) following biological iron reduction by Thermoanaerobacter
Andrew S. Madden, Andrew L. Swindle, Melanie J. Beazley, Ji-Won Moon, Bruce Ravel, and Tommy J. Phelps

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1653 The sulfur speciation in S-bearing minerals: New constraints by a combination of electron microprobe analysis and DFT calculations with special reference to sodalite-group minerals
Kai Hettmann, Thomas Wenzel, Michael Marks, and Gregor Markl

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1662 Semi-quantitative determination of the Fe/Mg ratio in synthetic cordierite using Raman spectroscopy
Udo Haefeker, Reinhard Kaindl, and Peter Tropper

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1670 Simultaneous sound velocity and density measurements of NaCl at high temperatures and pressures: Application as a primary pressure standard
Masanori Matsui, Yuji Higo, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Tetsuo Irifune, and Ken-Ichi Funakoshi

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1676 The temperature and compositional dependence of disordering in Fe-bearing dolomites
Ettore Franzolin, Marco Merlini, Stefano Poli, and Max W. Schmidt

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1685 Quantifying crystallization and devitrification of rhyolites by means of X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis
Michael C. Rowe, Ben S. Ellis, and Abbie Lindeberg

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1714 Elastic and anelastic anomalies due to spin-state transitions in orthorhombic perovskite from isoelectronic behavior of Co3+ and Fe2+
Zhiying Zhang, Johannes Koppensteiner, Wilfried Schranz, and Michael A. Carpenter

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1726 Accurate determination of ferric iron in garnets by bulk M??ssbauer spectroscopy and synchrotron micro-XANES
M. Darby Dyar, Elly A. Breves, Erica Emerson, Samuel W. Bell, Melissa Nelms, Marie V. Ozanne, Samantha E. Peel, Marco L. Carmosino, Jonathan M. Tucker, Mickey E. Gunter, Jeremy S. Delaney, Antonio Lanzirotti, and Alan B. Woodland

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1749 Second-order P6c2-P31c transition and structural crystallography of the cyclosilicate benitoite, BaTiSi3O9, at high pressure
Clivia Hejny, Ronald Miletich, Andreas Jasser, Pascal Schouwink, Wilson Crichton, and Volker Kahlenberg

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1764 High-pressure structural studies of eskolaite by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Anastasia Kantor, Innokenty Kantor, Marco Merlini, Konstantin Glazyrin, Clemens Prescher, Michael Hanfland, and Leonid Dubrovinsky

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1771 Almandine: Lattice and non-lattice heat capacity behavior and standard thermodynamic properties
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, and Artur Benisek

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1788 Krasheninnikovite, KNa2CaMg(SO4)3F, a new mineral from the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
Igor V. Pekov, Michael E. Zelenski, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Ksenofontov, Yuriy K. Kabalov, Nikita V. Chukanov, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Dmitry Y. Pushcharovsky

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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

1544

Brittle-ductile microfabrics in naturally deformed zircon: Deformation mechanisms and consequences for U-Pb dating
Sandra Piazolo, Håkon Austrheim, and Martin Whitehouse

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1564

In situ hot-stage AFM study of the dissolution of the barite (001) surface in water at 30–55 °C
Yoshihiro Kuwahara

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1627

Crystal chemistry of Bi- and Mn-bearing vesuvianite from Långban, Sweden
Lee A. Groat and R. James Evans

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1635

Cation ordering in Pb2+-bearing, Mn3+-rich pargasite from Långban, Sweden
Ulf Hålenius and Ferdinando Bosi

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1700

Reactions of strontium anorthite with H2O+CaCl2 fluids at 500 °C and high pressure: Kinetic information from in situ synchrotron-radiation XRF analyses of the fluid
Christian Schmidt, Richard Wirth, Max Wilke, Maria Mrosko, and Karen Appel

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1708

Solubility of xenotime in a 2 M HCl aqueous fluid from 1.2 to 2.6 GPa and 300 to 500 °C
Elizabeth A. Tanis, Adam Simon, Oliver Tschauner, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Gouyin Shen, John M. Hanchar, and Mark Frank

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1741

Re-investigation of the crystal structure of enstatite under high-pressure conditions
Benedetta Periotto, Tonci Balić-Žunić, Fabrizio Nestola, Anna Katerinopoulou, and Ross J. Angel

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1783

Witzkeite: A new rare nitrate-sulphate mineral from a guano deposit at Punta de Lobos, Chile
Fabrizio Nestola, Fernando Cámara, Nikita V. Chukanov, Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho, and Gunnar Färber

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1796

Crystal structure of pseudojohannite, with a revised formula, Cu3(OH)2[(UO2)4O4(SO4)2](H2O)12
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfjfarová, Kia Sheree Wallwork, Michal Dušek, Radek Škoda, Jiří Sejkora, Jiří Čejka, František Veselovský, Jan Hloušek, Nicolas Meisser, and Joël Brugger

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1812

The crystal structure of bartelkeite, with a revised chemical formula, PbFeGeVI(GeIV2O7)(OH)2·H2O, isotypic with high-pressure P21/m lawsonite
Marcus J. Origlieri, Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Esther S. Posner, Kenneth J. Domanik, and William W. Pinch

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1804

A natural photoelectrochemical cell for water splitting: Implications for early Earth and Mars
Carrick M. Eggleston, Justin R. Stern, Tess M. Strellis, and Bruce A. Parkinson

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1808

In situ observation of the breakdown of magnetite (Fe3O4) to Fe4O5 and hematite at high pressures and temperatures
Alan B. Woodland, Daniel J. Frost, Dmytro M. Trots, Kevin Klimm, and Mohamed Mezouar

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MSA ROEBLING MEDAL LECTURE

1533

Mineralogy, petrology, U-Pb geochronology, and geologic evolution of the Dabie-Sulu classic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane, East-Central China
Juhn G. Liou, Ruyuan Zhang, Fulai Liu, Zeming Zhang, and W. Gary Ernst

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1574

A multi-domain gem-grade Brazilian apatite
Tom Baikie, Martin K. Schreyer, Chui Ling Wong, Stevin S. Pramana, Wim T. Klooster, Cristiano Ferraris, Garry J. McIntyre, and T.J. White

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1582

High-temperature structural behaviors of anhydrous wadsleyite and forsterite
Dmytro M. Trots, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Daniel J. Frost

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1591

Synthetic B-rich olenite: Correlations of single-crystal structural data
Andreas Ertl, Gerald Giester, Thomas Ludwig, Hans-Peter Meyer, and George R. Rossman

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1598

Rates and mechanism of Y, REE, and Cr diffusion in garnet
William D. Carlson

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1619

EPR discrimination of microcrystalline calcite geomaterials
Francesco Di Benedetto, Antonella Buccianti, Giordano Montegrossi, Massimo Innocenti, Carlo Andrea Massa, Luca A. Pardi, and Maurizio Romanelli

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1641

Long-term solid-phase fate of co-precipitated U(VI)-Fe(III) following biological iron reduction by Thermoanaerobacter
Andrew S. Madden, Andrew L. Swindle, Melanie J. Beazley, Ji-Won Moon, Bruce Ravel, and Tommy J. Phelps

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1653

The sulfur speciation in S-bearing minerals: New constraints by a combination of electron microprobe analysis and DFT calculations with special reference to sodalite-group minerals
Kai Hettmann, Thomas Wenzel, Michael Marks, and Gregor Markl

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1662

Semi-quantitative determination of the Fe/Mg ratio in synthetic cordierite using Raman spectroscopy
Udo Haefeker, Reinhard Kaindl, and Peter Tropper

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1670

Simultaneous sound velocity and density measurements of NaCl at high temperatures and pressures: Application as a primary pressure standard
Masanori Matsui, Yuji Higo, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Tetsuo Irifune, and Ken-Ichi Funakoshi

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1676

The temperature and compositional dependence of disordering in Fe-bearing dolomites
Ettore Franzolin, Marco Merlini, Stefano Poli, and Max W. Schmidt

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1685

Quantifying crystallization and devitrification of rhyolites by means of X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis
Michael C. Rowe, Ben S. Ellis, and Abbie Lindeberg

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1714

Elastic and anelastic anomalies due to spin-state transitions in orthorhombic perovskite from isoelectronic behavior of Co3+ and Fe2+
Zhiying Zhang, Johannes Koppensteiner, Wilfried Schranz, and Michael A. Carpenter

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1726

Accurate determination of ferric iron in garnets by bulk M??ssbauer spectroscopy and synchrotron micro-XANES
M. Darby Dyar, Elly A. Breves, Erica Emerson, Samuel W. Bell, Melissa Nelms, Marie V. Ozanne, Samantha E. Peel, Marco L. Carmosino, Jonathan M. Tucker, Mickey E. Gunter, Jeremy S. Delaney, Antonio Lanzirotti, and Alan B. Woodland

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1749

Second-order P6c2-P31c transition and structural crystallography of the cyclosilicate benitoite, BaTiSi3O9, at high pressure
Clivia Hejny, Ronald Miletich, Andreas Jasser, Pascal Schouwink, Wilson Crichton, and Volker Kahlenberg

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1764

High-pressure structural studies of eskolaite by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Anastasia Kantor, Innokenty Kantor, Marco Merlini, Konstantin Glazyrin, Clemens Prescher, Michael Hanfland, and Leonid Dubrovinsky

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1771

Almandine: Lattice and non-lattice heat capacity behavior and standard thermodynamic properties
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, and Artur Benisek

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1788

Krasheninnikovite, KNa2CaMg(SO4)3F, a new mineral from the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
Igor V. Pekov, Michael E. Zelenski, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Ksenofontov, Yuriy K. Kabalov, Nikita V. Chukanov, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Dmitry Y. Pushcharovsky

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AWARD

1816

Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2012 to Roberta L. Rudnick
Albrecht Hofmann

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1817

Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2012
Roberta L. Rudnick

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1818

New Mineral Names
Dmitry Belakovskiy, and Kimberly T. Tait

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