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American Mineralogist
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REGULAR ARTICLE
463 An x-ray and optical investigation of the serpentine minerals
504 Separation planes in magnetite
511 Hydrothermal alteration of montmorillonite to feldspar at temperatures from 245 °C. to 300 °C.
516 Devitrified felsite dikes from Ascutney Mountain, Vermont
523 The determination of the refractive indices of minerals by the immersion method
529 Phosphatic concretions near Junction City, Kentucky
531 A rapid microscopic method for distinguishing quartz from untwinned oligoclase-andesine
532 Aguilarite from the Comstock lode, Virginia City, Nevada
BOOK REVIEW and PROCEEDINGS
535 Book reviews; Proceedings of societies
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Table of Contents
AmMin submission to acceptance/”first publication” is at a record average of about three to four months. Our acceptance to “final” publication is presently another 13 months on average.
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Special Collections
American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.