American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
1 Condensation, evaporation, melting, and crystallization in the primitive solar nebuia: Experimental data in the system MgO-SiO2-H2 to 1.0 x 10-9 bar and 1870 °C with variable oxygen fugacity
20 Devonian and Carboniferous metamorphism in west-central Maine: The muscovite-almandine geobarometer and the staurolite problem revisited
48 Magnesian staurolite in garnet-corundum rocks and eclogite from the Donghai district, Jiangsu province, east China
57 Mg/Mn partitioning as a test for equilibrium between coexisting Fe-Ti oxides
62 Compositional and structural variations of phyllosilicates from the Point Sal ophiolite, California
77 Experimental investigation of the smectite to illite reaction: Dual reaction mechanisms and oxygen-isotope systematics
91 Ordering behavior of albite using the modified sequential construction method
97 Location of trace Fe3+ ions in sanidine, KAlSi3O8
105 Polytypism in micas: A polyhedral approach to energy calculations
119 HRTEM characterization of scapolite solid solutions
135 Baileychlore, the Zn end member of the trioctahedral chlorite series
140 Optical spectrum, site occupancy, and oxidation state of Mn in montmorillonite
145 Ammonium in alunites
153 Studies of the crystal structure and crystal chemistry of titanomaghemite
161 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for the direct identification of Ti valence in [BaXCsY][(Ti,Al)3+2X+YTi4+8-2X-Y]O16 hollandites
168 Pyrophosphate groups in the structure of canaphite, CaNa2P2O7·4H2O: The first occurrence of a condensed phosphate as a mineral
172 Optical absorption spectroscopy of natural and irradiated pink tourmaline
181 Howardevansite, NaCu2+Fe3+2(VO4)3-3, a new fumarolic sublimate from Izalco volcano, El Salvador: Descriptive mineralogy and crystal structure
187 Possible unit cell for danielsite
NEW MINERAL NAMES
189 NEW MINERAL NAMES
NOTES
200 NOTICE
ERRATA
200 ERRATA
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