American Mineralogist

Volume 98, Issue no. 0203 : February - March 2013

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

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

285 Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO4
H.K. Poswal, Nandini Garg, Maddury Somayazulu, and Surinder M. Sharma

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297 Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Henrik Skogby, Aaron J. Lussier, Yassir Abdu, and Frank C. Hawthorne

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304 Microtexture development during rapid cooling in three rhyolitic lava flows
Sheila J. Seaman

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319 Microbial and inorganic control on the composition of clay from volcanic glass alteration experiments
Javier Cuadros, Beytullah Afsin, Premroy Jadubansa, Mahmoud Ardakani, Carmen Ascaso, and Jacek Wierzchos

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335 High-pressure experiments on phase transition boundaries between corundum, Rh2O3(II)- and CaIrO3-type structures in Al2O3
Jinya Kato, Kei Hirose, Haruka Ozawa, and Yasuo Ohishi

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340 Electronic structure effects in the vectorial bond-valence model
Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew F.C. Wander, Joel Edwards, Josh Maurer, Kendrick Shepherd, Eric Meyer, W. Joel Johansen, Rose A. Frank, Charles Andros, and Matthew Davis

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350 Geometric analysis of radiation damage connectivity in zircon, and its implications for helium diffusion
Richard A. Ketcham, William R. Guenthner, and Peter W. Reiners

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361 Superstructure, crystal chemistry, and cation distribution in filipstadite, a Sb5+-bearing, spinel-related mineral
Paola Bonazzi, Laura Chelazzi, and Luca Bindi

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367 A high-temperature Brillouin scattering study on four compositions of haplogranitic glasses and melts: High-frequency elastic behavior through the glass transition
Anwar Hushur, Murli H. Manghnani, Quentin Williams, and Donald B. Dingwell

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376 Hydrogen isotope fractionation between coexisting hydrous melt and silicate-saturated aqueous fluid: An experimental study in situ at high pressure and temperature
Bjorn Mysen

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387 Eclogitic clasts with omphacite and pyrope-rich garnet in the NWA 801 CR2 chondrite
Makoto Kimura, Naoji Sugiura, Takashi Mikouchi, Takao Hirajima, Hajime Hiyagon, and Yoshie Takehana

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401 Quantitative analyses of powdered multi-minerallic carbonate aggregates using a portable Raman spectrometer
Petra Kristova, Laurence Hopkinson, Ken Rutt, Hazel Hunter, and Gordon Cressey

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417 Coexisting pseudobrookite, ilmenite, and titanomagnetite in hornblende andesite of the Coleman Pinnacle flow, Mount Baker, Washington: Evidence for a highly oxidized arc magma
Emily K. Mullen and I. Stewart McCallum

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426 Geochemistry of pyrochlore minerals from the Motzfeldt Center, South Greenland: The mineralogy of a syenite-hosted Ta, Nb deposit
Jamie A. McCreath, Adrian A. Finch, Donald A. Herd, and Ashlyn Armour-Brown

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444 The relationship between REE-Y-Nb-Th minerals and the evolution of an A-type granite, Wentworth Pluton, Nova Scotia
Angeliki D. Papoutsa and Georgia Pe-Piper

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463 Prewittite, KPb1.5Cu6Zn(SeO3)2O2Cl10, a new mineral from Tolbachik fumaroles, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia: Description and crystal structure
Robert R. Shuvalov, Lidiya P. Vergasova, Tatyana F. Semenova, Stanislav K. Filatov, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Oleg I. Siidra, and Nikolay S. Rudashevsky

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478 Scottyite, the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2Si2O7, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans, and William W. Pinch

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506 Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: VIII. Fuettererite, Pb3Cu2+6Te6+O6(OH)7Cl5, a new mineral with double spangolite-type sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty

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512 Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: IX. Agaite, Pb3Cu2+Te6+O5(OH)2(CO3), a new mineral with CuO5-TeO6 polyhedral sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty

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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
Item #AM-22-17851
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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
Item #AM-22-17651
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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
Item #AM-22-17904
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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
Item #AM-22-17747
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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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ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

292

Hydrokenomicrolite, (,H2O)2Ta2(O,OH)6(H2O), a new microlite-group mineral from Volta Grande pegmatite, Nazareno, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marcelo B. Andrade, Daniel Atencio, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Javier Ellena

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394

Hydration properties of synthetic high-charge micas saturated with different cations: An experimental approach
Esperanza Pavón, Miguel A. Castro, Moisés Naranjo, M. Mar Orta, M. Carolina Pazos, and María D. Alba

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410

Periodic ab initio bulk investigation of hydroxylapatite and type A carbonated apatite with both pseudopotential and all-electron basis sets for calcium atoms
Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdrè, Marta Corno, and Piero Ugliengo

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439

Phosphovanadylite-Ca, Ca[V4+4P2O8(OH)8]·12H2O, the Ca analogue of phosphovanadylite-Ba
Anthony R. Kampf, Barbara P. Nash, and Thomas A. Loomis

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470

Lucabindiite, (K,NH4)As4O6(Cl,Br), a new fumarole mineral from the “La Fossa” crater at Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
Anna Garavelli, Donatella Mitolo, Daniela Pinto, and Filippo Vurro

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485

Oxy-schorl, Na(Fe2+2Al)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral from Zlatá Idka, Slovak Republic and Přibyslavice, Czech Republic
Peter Bačík, Jan Cempírek, Pavel Uher, Milan Novák, Daniel Ozdín, Jan Filip, Radek Škoda, Karel Breiter, Mariana Klementová, Rudolf Ďuďa, and Lee A. Groat

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493

Crystal chemistry and hydrogen bonding of rustumite Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2 with variable OH, Cl, F
Frank Gfeller, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Valentina B. Savelyeva, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Piotr Dzierżanowski, and Viktor M. Gazeev

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501

Oxy-vanadium-dravite, NaV3(V4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O: Crystal structure and redefinition of the “vanadium-dravite” tourmaline
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Z. Reznitskii, and Eugene V. Sklyarov

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524

ERRATUM: Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals by Darrell J. Henry, Milan Novák, Frank C. Hawthorne, Andreas Ertl, Barbara L. Dutrow, Pavel Uher, and Federico Pezzotta (May-June, vol. 96, p. 895–913, 2011: Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2011.3636. Erratum DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2013.614.)

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518

Evidence for nanocrystals of vorlanite, a rare uranate mineral, in the Nopal I low-temperature uranium deposit (Sierra Peña Blanca, Mexico)
Guillaume Othmane, Thierry Allard, Nicolas Menguy, Guillaume Morin, Imène Esteve, Mostafa Fayek, and Georges Calas

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REGULAR ARTICLE

285

Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO4
H.K. Poswal, Nandini Garg, Maddury Somayazulu, and Surinder M. Sharma

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

297

Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Henrik Skogby, Aaron J. Lussier, Yassir Abdu, and Frank C. Hawthorne

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304

Microtexture development during rapid cooling in three rhyolitic lava flows
Sheila J. Seaman

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319

Microbial and inorganic control on the composition of clay from volcanic glass alteration experiments
Javier Cuadros, Beytullah Afsin, Premroy Jadubansa, Mahmoud Ardakani, Carmen Ascaso, and Jacek Wierzchos

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335

High-pressure experiments on phase transition boundaries between corundum, Rh2O3(II)- and CaIrO3-type structures in Al2O3
Jinya Kato, Kei Hirose, Haruka Ozawa, and Yasuo Ohishi

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340

Electronic structure effects in the vectorial bond-valence model
Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew F.C. Wander, Joel Edwards, Josh Maurer, Kendrick Shepherd, Eric Meyer, W. Joel Johansen, Rose A. Frank, Charles Andros, and Matthew Davis

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350

Geometric analysis of radiation damage connectivity in zircon, and its implications for helium diffusion
Richard A. Ketcham, William R. Guenthner, and Peter W. Reiners

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361

Superstructure, crystal chemistry, and cation distribution in filipstadite, a Sb5+-bearing, spinel-related mineral
Paola Bonazzi, Laura Chelazzi, and Luca Bindi

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367

A high-temperature Brillouin scattering study on four compositions of haplogranitic glasses and melts: High-frequency elastic behavior through the glass transition
Anwar Hushur, Murli H. Manghnani, Quentin Williams, and Donald B. Dingwell

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376

Hydrogen isotope fractionation between coexisting hydrous melt and silicate-saturated aqueous fluid: An experimental study in situ at high pressure and temperature
Bjorn Mysen

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387

Eclogitic clasts with omphacite and pyrope-rich garnet in the NWA 801 CR2 chondrite
Makoto Kimura, Naoji Sugiura, Takashi Mikouchi, Takao Hirajima, Hajime Hiyagon, and Yoshie Takehana

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401

Quantitative analyses of powdered multi-minerallic carbonate aggregates using a portable Raman spectrometer
Petra Kristova, Laurence Hopkinson, Ken Rutt, Hazel Hunter, and Gordon Cressey

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417

Coexisting pseudobrookite, ilmenite, and titanomagnetite in hornblende andesite of the Coleman Pinnacle flow, Mount Baker, Washington: Evidence for a highly oxidized arc magma
Emily K. Mullen and I. Stewart McCallum

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426

Geochemistry of pyrochlore minerals from the Motzfeldt Center, South Greenland: The mineralogy of a syenite-hosted Ta, Nb deposit
Jamie A. McCreath, Adrian A. Finch, Donald A. Herd, and Ashlyn Armour-Brown

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444

The relationship between REE-Y-Nb-Th minerals and the evolution of an A-type granite, Wentworth Pluton, Nova Scotia
Angeliki D. Papoutsa and Georgia Pe-Piper

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463

Prewittite, KPb1.5Cu6Zn(SeO3)2O2Cl10, a new mineral from Tolbachik fumaroles, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia: Description and crystal structure
Robert R. Shuvalov, Lidiya P. Vergasova, Tatyana F. Semenova, Stanislav K. Filatov, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Oleg I. Siidra, and Nikolay S. Rudashevsky

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

478

Scottyite, the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2Si2O7, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans, and William W. Pinch

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

506

Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: VIII. Fuettererite, Pb3Cu2+6Te6+O6(OH)7Cl5, a new mineral with double spangolite-type sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

512

Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: IX. Agaite, Pb3Cu2+Te6+O5(OH)2(CO3), a new mineral with CuO5-TeO6 polyhedral sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty

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BOOK REVIEW

522

BOOK REVIEW: FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF AFRICA: A SYNOPSIS OF 3.8 GA OF EARTH HISTORY edited by D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, S.J.H Buiter, T.H. Torsvik, G. Gaina, and S.J. Webb (2011) Geological Society London Special Publication number 357. 378 pp. ISBN: 1-86239-335-4.
Maarten de Wit

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REVIEWERS

525

REVIEWERS Thanks 2012

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