American Mineralogist
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1 Feldspar solid solutions
17 The mineralogy of K-richterite-bearing lamproites
38 Raman spectroscopic study of the SiO2- Al2O3-K2O vitreous system: distribution of silicon second neighbors
51 High-chlorine amphiboles from oceanic rocks: product of highly-saline hydrothermal fluids?
60 Mg-rich hollow sanidine in partially melted granite xenoliths in a mica peridotite at Rose dome, Woodson County, Kansas
68 A kinetic study of clinochlore and its high temperature equivalent forsterite-cordierite-spinel at 2 kbar water pressure
78 Morphologies and growth mechanisms of synthetic Mg-chlorite and cordierite
85 Kinetics of mineral-water reactions: theory, design and application of circulating hydrothermal equipment
95 A spectroscopic study of blue radiation coloring in plagioclase
99 Pressure-induced band splitting in infrared spectra of sanidine and albite
105 EPR study of Fe3+ centers in cristobalite and tridymite
111 Nature of phases synthesized along the join (Mg,Mn)2Si2O6
123 Grandite garnet from Nevada: confirmation of origin of iridescence by electron microscopy and interpretation of a moiré- like texture
127 Local states of Fe2+ and Mg2+ in magnesium-rich olivines
136 Cation partitioning in hydrothermally prepared olivine-related (Fe,Mn)-sarcopsides
142 Ionic modeling of mineral structures and energies in the electron gas approximation: TiO2 polymorphs, quartz, forsterite, diopside
151 Spectral reflectance of carbonate minerals in the visible and near infrared (0.35-2.55 microns): calcite, aragonite, and dolomite
163 Crystal structure refinement of huntite, CaMg3(CO3)4, with X-ray powder data
167 Alteration profiles and impurity element distributions in magnetic fractions of weathered ilmenite
176 X-ray and HRTEM structure analysis of orientite
188 Thalenite from Arizona
194 Direct imaging of tunnel cations in zinkenite by high-resolution electron microscopy
202 Refinement of the crystal structure of krausite: a mineral with an interpolyhedral oxygen-oxygen contact shorter than the hydrogen bond
206 Lammerite, Cu3(AsO4)2, a modulated close-packed structure
210 Renierite, Cu10ZnGe2Fe4S16- Cu11GeAsFe4S16: a coupled solid solution series
222 The crystal structure of Fe2+Fe3+2(PO3OH)4(H2O)4: a new synthetic compound of mineralogic interest
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