American Mineralogist
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1 ANORTHOSITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS Evidence for unusually feldspathic liquids in the Nain complex, Labrador
13 Sr and Nd isotopic constraints on the origin of the Laramie Anorthosite Complex, Wyoming
21 Single-crystal U-Pb zircon age determination c the Red Mountain pluton, Laramie Anorthosite Complex, Wyoming
27 Petrochemical and mineralogical relationships in the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand, South Africa
37 The Stillwater Complex and its anorthosites: An accident of magmatic underplating?
46 Lunar anorthosites and the magma-ocean plagioclase-flotation hypothesis: Importance of FeO enrichment in the parent magma
59 ARTICLES A fluid-inclusion study of metamorphosed pelitic and carbonate rocks, south-central Maine
71 Cordierite volatile content and the role of CO2 in high-grade metamorphism
89 Two new geobarometers for garnet amphibolites, with applications to southeastern Vermont
97 Silicate-bearing rutile-dominated nodules from South African kimberlites: Metasomatized cumulates
105 Stability of chlorite in the upper mantle
109 Structural distortions and vibrational modes in Mg2SiO4
120 Role of Al in depolymerized, peralkaline aluminosilicate melts in the systems Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2, Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2 and K2O-Al2O3-SiO2
135 Variation of displacement parameters in structure refinements of low albite
141 Difference displacement parameters in alkali feldspars: Effects of (Si,Al) order-disorder
150 Structural variation associated with compositional variation and order-disorder behavior in anorthite-rich feldspars Download Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5, Document AM-90-426, as a scanned pdf (14.2 MB)
150 Structural variation associated with compositional variation and order-disorder behavior in anorthite-rich feldspars Download Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5, Document AM-90-426, as a scanned pdf (14.2 MB)
163 Accommodation of Fe3+ in natural, Fe3+-rich, calcic and subcalcic amphiboles: Evidence from published chemical analyses
170 Error propagation in calculations of structural formulas
183 Heat capacities and thermodynamic properties of annite (aluminous iron biotite)
188 Thermochemical data for merlinoite: 1. Low-temperature heat capacities, entropies, and enthalpies of formation at 298.15 K of six synthetic samples having various Si/Al and Na/(Na + K) ratios
201 Thermochemical data for merlinoite: 2. Free energies of formation at 298.15 K of six synthetic samples having various Si/Al and Na/(Na + K) ratios and application to saline, alkaline lakes
209 An experimental study of Na-K exchange between alunite and aqueous sulfate solutions
221 Transformation of chernikovite and sodium autunite into lehnerite
226 Synthesis of hydrocarbon fluid inclusions at low temperature
230 X-ray reference-intensity and X-ray fluorescence analyses of Salton Sea core
237 Role of natural radiation in tourmaline coloration: Discussion
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