American Mineralogist

Volume 97, Issue no. 1112 : November - December 2012

Letter

2060 Mineralogical variation of silica induced by Al and Na in hydrothermal solutions
Hanae Saishu, Atsushi Okamoto, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya

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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

2049 First-principles study of self-diffusion and viscous flow in diopside (CaMgSi2O6) liquid
Ashok K. Verma and Bijaya B. Karki

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REGULAR ARTICLES

1841 CO2 solubility in primitive martian basalts similar to Yamato 980459, the effect of composition on CO2 solubility of basalts, and the evolution of the martian atmosphere
Ben D. Stanley, Douglas R. Schaub, and Marc M. Hirschmann

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1858 Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations
Bing Zhou, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Yuanming Pan, Yefeng Yao, Kimberly T. Tait, Brendt C. Hyde, John E.C. Wren, Barbara L. Sherriff, and Scott Kroeker

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1874 In situ dehydration behavior of zeolite-like cavansite: A single-crystal X-ray study
Rosa Micaela Danisi, Thomas Armbruster, and Biljana Lazic

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1881 LREE-redistribution among fluorapatite, monazite, and allanite at high pressures and temperatures
Erwin Krenn, Daniel E. Harlov, Fritz Finger, and Bernd Wunder

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1891 A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of hambergite, Be2BO3(OH,F)
G. Diego Gatta, Garry J. McIntyre, Geoffrey Bromiley, Alessandro Guastoni, and Fabrizio Nestola

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1898 Analyzing water contents in unexposed glass inclusions in quartz crystals
Kenneth S. Befus, James E. Gardner, and Robert W. Zinke

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1915 Synthesis and crystal chemistry of Fe3+-bearing (Mg,Fe3+)(Si,Fe3+)O3 perovskite
Daniel R. Hummer and Yingwei Fei

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1922 Mixed-layered structure formation during trans-vacant Al-rich illite partial dehydroxylation
Victor A. Drits, Douglas K. McCarty, and Arkadiusz Derkowski

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1939 Structural regularities in 2M1 dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach
Bella B. Zviagina and Victor A. Drits

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1955 Incorporation of Fe and Al in MgSiO3 perovskite: An investigation by 27Al and 29Si NMR spectroscopy
Aaron C. Palke, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Dan J. Frost, and Catherine A. McCammon

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1977 Packing systematics and structural relationships of the new copper molybdate markascherite and related minerals
Richard M. Thompson, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs

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1987 On the origin of sellaite (MgF2)-rich deposits in Mg-poor environments
Katharina Pfaff, Sebastian Staude, and Gregor Markl

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2007 Whelanite, Cu2Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Stefano Merlino, Marco Pasero, Andrew M. McDonald, William B. Wray, and James R. Hindman

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2016 2M1-phlogopite from Black Hills (South Australia): The first case of configurational polytype in micas
Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Ernesto Mesto, and Maria Lacalamita

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2024 Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, and Henrik Skogby

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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

1821

Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales in the MgAl2O4-CuAl2O4 series
Rosa Anna Fregola, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, and Ulf Hålenius

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1828

Blue spinel crystals in the MgAl2O4-CoAl2O4 series: Part I. Flux growth and chemical characterization
Veronica D’Ippolito, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Ferdinando Bosi, and Ulf Hålenius

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1834

Blue spinel crystals in the MgAl2O4-CoAl2O4 series: Part II. Cation ordering over short-range and long-range scales
Ferdinando Bosi, Ulf Hålenius, Veronica D’Ippolito, and Giovanni B. Andreozzi

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1849

New structural features of the high-pressure synthetic sheet-disilicate Phase-X, K(2–x)Mg2Si2O7Hx
Mark D. Welch, Jürgen Konzett, Luca Bindi, Simon C. Kohn, and Daniel J. Frost

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1866

Hydrogen-bond system and dehydration behavior of the natural zeolite parthéite
Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Bernard W. Liebich, and Lukas Perfler

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1905

The atomic structure of deuterated boyleite ZnSO4·4D2O, ilesite MnSO4·4D2O, and bianchite ZnSO4·6D2O
Jennifer L. Anderson, Ronald C. Peterson, and Ian Swainson

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1965

In situ high-temperature Raman and FTIR spectroscopy of the phase transformation of lizardite
Roy Trittschack, Bernard Grobéty, and Monika Koch-Müller

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1998

Edgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4F2-hydroxyledgrewite Ca9(SiO4)4(OH)2, a new series of calcium humite-group minerals from altered xenoliths in the ignimbrite of Upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Viktor M. Gazeev, Roman Włodyka, Mateusz Dulski, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, and Leonid S. Dubrovinsky

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2056

Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zakłodzie meteorite
Chi Ma, John R. Beckett, and George R. Rossman

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2064

New Mineral Names
G. Diego Gatta, Fernando Cámara, Kimberly T. Tait, and Dmitry Belakovskiy

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2073

Memorial of Renaud Vochten, 1933–2012
Henri Dillen

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2076

ERRATUM: Tobelite and NH4+-rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry by Ernesto Mesto, Fernando Scordari, Maria Lacalamita, and Emanuela Schingaro (vol. 97, p. 1460–1468, 2012: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2012.4

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2060

Mineralogical variation of silica induced by Al and Na in hydrothermal solutions
Hanae Saishu, Atsushi Okamoto, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY

2049

First-principles study of self-diffusion and viscous flow in diopside (CaMgSi2O6) liquid
Ashok K. Verma and Bijaya B. Karki

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1841

CO2 solubility in primitive martian basalts similar to Yamato 980459, the effect of composition on CO2 solubility of basalts, and the evolution of the martian atmosphere
Ben D. Stanley, Douglas R. Schaub, and Marc M. Hirschmann

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1858

Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations
Bing Zhou, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Yuanming Pan, Yefeng Yao, Kimberly T. Tait, Brendt C. Hyde, John E.C. Wren, Barbara L. Sherriff, and Scott Kroeker

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1874

In situ dehydration behavior of zeolite-like cavansite: A single-crystal X-ray study
Rosa Micaela Danisi, Thomas Armbruster, and Biljana Lazic

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1881

LREE-redistribution among fluorapatite, monazite, and allanite at high pressures and temperatures
Erwin Krenn, Daniel E. Harlov, Fritz Finger, and Bernd Wunder

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1891

A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of hambergite, Be2BO3(OH,F)
G. Diego Gatta, Garry J. McIntyre, Geoffrey Bromiley, Alessandro Guastoni, and Fabrizio Nestola

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1898

Analyzing water contents in unexposed glass inclusions in quartz crystals
Kenneth S. Befus, James E. Gardner, and Robert W. Zinke

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1915

Synthesis and crystal chemistry of Fe3+-bearing (Mg,Fe3+)(Si,Fe3+)O3 perovskite
Daniel R. Hummer and Yingwei Fei

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1922

Mixed-layered structure formation during trans-vacant Al-rich illite partial dehydroxylation
Victor A. Drits, Douglas K. McCarty, and Arkadiusz Derkowski

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1939

Structural regularities in 2M1 dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach
Bella B. Zviagina and Victor A. Drits

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1955

Incorporation of Fe and Al in MgSiO3 perovskite: An investigation by 27Al and 29Si NMR spectroscopy
Aaron C. Palke, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Dan J. Frost, and Catherine A. McCammon

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1977

Packing systematics and structural relationships of the new copper molybdate markascherite and related minerals
Richard M. Thompson, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs

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1987

On the origin of sellaite (MgF2)-rich deposits in Mg-poor environments
Katharina Pfaff, Sebastian Staude, and Gregor Markl

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2007

Whelanite, Cu2Ca6[Si6O17(OH)](CO3)(OH)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Stefano Merlino, Marco Pasero, Andrew M. McDonald, William B. Wray, and James R. Hindman

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2016

2M1-phlogopite from Black Hills (South Australia): The first case of configurational polytype in micas
Fernando Scordari, Emanuela Schingaro, Ernesto Mesto, and Maria Lacalamita

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2024

Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Reznitskii, and Henrik Skogby

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IMA REPORT

2031

Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup
Frank C. Hawthorne, Roberta Oberti, George E. Harlow, Walter V. Maresch, Robert F. Martin, John C. Schumacher, and Mark D. Welch

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BOOK REVIEW

2075

BOOK REVIEW: FRONTIERS IN GEOCHEMISTRY: CONTRIBUTIONS OF GEOCHEMISTRY TO THE STUDY OF THE EARTH by Russell S. Harmon and Andrew Parker, Editors. (2011) Wiley-Blackwell, paperback 280 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9338-2
Heather Handley and Simon Turner

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