American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
601 An orbital interpretation of Pauling’s rules
622 Structural studies of silicate glasses and melts-applications and limitations of Raman spectroscopy
645 A Raman spectroscopic study of glasses in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2
660 Probable relations between plagioclase zoning and magma dynamics, Fuego Volcano, Guatemala
677 Phase composition as a measure of reaction progress and an experimental model for the high-temperature metamorphism of mafic igneous rocks
692 Thermodynamic properties of zeolites: low-temperature heat capacities and thermodynamic functions for phillipsite and clinoptilolite. Estimates of the thermochemical properties of zeolitic water at low temperature
701 The heat capacities of osumilite form 298.15 to 1000 K, the thermodynamic properties of two natural chlorites to 500 K, and the thermodynamic properties of petalite to 1800 K
711 An attempt to simulate high pressure structures of Mg-silicates by an energy minimization method
719 The Raman spectrum of MgSiO3 ilmenite
722 Magnetic ordering in andradite
725 The crystal structure of an Al-rich titanite from Grisons, Switzerland
733 Cation distributions and thermodynamic properties of binary spinel solid solutions
754 Crystal structure and cation distribution in titanomagnetites (Fe3-xTixO4)
771 Crystal structure and optical spectroscopy (300 to 2200 nm) of CaCrSi4O10
777 Davreuxite: a reinvestigation
783 The crystal structure of davreuxite, MnAl6Si4O17(OH)2
788 The electronic structures of manganese oxide minerals
800 Magnussonite: new chemical data, an occurrence at Sterling Hill, New Jersey, and new data on a related phase from the Brattfors mine, Sweden
803 Gamagarite: a re-examination and comparison with brackebuschite-like minerals
807 First U.S. occurrence of wodginite from Powhatan County, Virginia
NEW MINERAL NAMES
810 NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
816 BOOK REVIEWS
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American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.