American Mineralogist
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1176 Thermal expansion of silicate liquids: Direct determination using container-based dilatometry
1181 Aliphatic hydrocarbons in structural channels of cordierite: A first evidence from polarized single-crystal IR-absorption spectroscopy
1186 Interlayer structure, anion dynamics, and phase transitions in mixed-metal layered hydroxides: Variable temperature 35Cl NMR spectroscopy of hydrotalcite and Ca-aluminate hydrate (hydrocalumite)
1191 Three- and five-quantum 17O MAS NMR of forsterite Mg2SiO4
REGULAR ARTICLE
997 Medical mineralogy as a new challenge to the geologist: Silicates in human mammary tissue?
1009 Relationships between respiratory diseases and quartz-rich dust in Idaho, U.S.A.
1020 Diogenites as asteroidal cumulates: Insights from spinel chemistry
1027 Cathodoluminescence microscopy and spectroscopy of plagioclases from lunar soil
1033 23Na, 29Si, and 71Ga MAS-NMR spectroscopy of synthetic gallian-fluor-amphiboles
1041 Vibrational analysis of the dioctahedral mica: 2M1 muscovite
1049 XAFS study of the coordination and local relaxation around Co2+, Zn2+, Pb2+, and Ba2+ trace elements in calcite.
1061 The surface structure of a-Fe2O3 (001) by scanning tunneling microscopy: Implications for interfacial electron transfer reactions
1071 Oxidation state of gold and arsenic in gold-bearing arsenian pyrite
1080 HRTEM evidence for the process and mechanism of saponite-to-chlorite conversion through corrensite
1088 Incommensurate modulation and the crystal structure of ganophyllite
1099 Structural principles for minerals and inorganic compounds containing anion-centered tetrahedra
1107 “Is “”metamictization”” of zircon a phase transition?”
1117 Burbankite, a (Sr,REE,Na,Ca)-carbonate in fluid inclusions from carbonatite-derived fluids: Identification and characterization using Laser Raman spectroscopy, SEM-EDX, and synchrotron micro-XRF analysis
1126 Partially dealuminated heulandite produced by acidic REECl3 solution: A chemical and single-crystal X-ray study
1135 Symmetry change of majorite solid-solution in the system Mg3Al2Si3O12-MgSiO3
1144 Order-disorder process in the tetrahedral sites of albite
1152 Crystal structure of boralsilite and its relation to a family of boroaluminosilicates, sillimanite, and andalusite
1162 The synthesis and crystal structure of CaAlFSiO4, the Al-F analog of titanite
1170 Crystal structure of kanemite, NaHSi2O5·3H2O, from the Aris phonolite, Namibia
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1195 NEW MINERAL NAMES
MEMORIAL
1212 Memorial of Dimitriy Sergeyevich Korzhinskiy on the centenary of his birth, 1899-1985
AWARD
1199 Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1998 to C. Wayne Burnham
1200 Acceptance of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1998
1202 Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 1998 to James M. Brenan
1203 Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 1998
1205 Presentation of the Distinguished Public Service Medal for 1998 to Daniel E. Appleman
1207 Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Public Service Award of 1998
1207 The Gibbs free energies and enthalpies of formation of U6+ phases: An empirical method of prediction (v. 84, 650-664,1999).
1209 Boron: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. edited by E.S. Grew and L.M. Anovitz. Minerlaogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 33, 1996.
1209 Third Hutton Symposium: The Origin of Granites and Related Rocks. Edited by M. Brown, P.A. Candela, D.L. Peck, W.E. Stephens, R.J. Walker, and E. Zen. Geological Society of America Special Paper 315, 1996.
DEPOSIT ITEMS
1049 XAFS study of the coordination and local relaxation around Co2+, Zn2+, Pb2+, and Ba2+ trace elements in calcite
1088 Incommensurate modulation and the crystal structure of ganophyllite
1126 Partially dealuminated heulandite produced by acidic REECl3 solution: A chemical and single-crystal X-ray study
1144 Order-disorder process in the tetrahedral sites of albite
1152 Crystal structure of boralsilite and its relation to a family of boroaluminosilicates, sillimanite, and andalusite
1152 Crystal structure of boralsilite and its relation to a family of boroaluminosilicates, sillimanite, and andalusite
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