American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
1231 A nuclear magnetic resonance determination of the hydrogen positions in Ca(OH)2
1252 Hendersonite, a new calcium vanadyl vanadate from Colorado and New Mexico
1273 Phase transformations in silica-alumina-magnesia mixtures as examined by continuous x-ray diffraction: I. Talc-kaolinite compositions
1284 Coulsonite, FeV2O4, a spinel-type mineral from Lovelock, Nevada
1292 Optical crystallography of coesite
1303 Secondary phosphates from Bingham, Utah
1310 Effect of base cation on the cesium kinetics of clinoptilolite
1317 Characterization of a strontium-selective zeolite
1327 Allanite from the Mount Wheeler area, White Pine County, Nevada
1332 Mechanism of natural etching of hematite crystals
1346 Brockite, a new calcium thorium phosphate from the Wet Mountains, Colorado
1356 On the crystal chemistry of hisingerite
1363 Radioactive columbite
1380 A new series of synthetic borates isostructural with the carbonate mineral huntite
1384 Semi-quantitative analysis of chlorites by x-ray diffraction
1393 Diamond synthesis: Observations on the mechanism of formation
1422 X-ray study of synthetic diamond and associated phases
1434 The distribution of Ni, Co, Cr, Cu, Ba and Sr between biotite-garnet pairs in a metamorphic sequence
1441 Intercrystallized apatite and ankerite from the New Albany Shale of Indiana
1446 Electronoscopic studies of acid-treated kaolinite
1450 Synthetic emerald
1453 Tridymite (low form) in some opal of New Mexico
1456 The action of water on calcite, magnesite and dolomite
1460 Some alkali aluminate crystals and potassium ferrite
1461 Studies on manganese oxide minerals VI. Thallium in some manganese oxides
1467 Xenotime from Rayfield, Northern Nigeria
1473 Crystal-optic study of secondary overgrowth in quartz
1478 Epoxy resin for oil immersion and heavy mineral studies
1480 “Addendum note to “”Reaction series for subalkaline igneous rocks based on different oxygen pressure conditions”””
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1482 New Mineral Names
MINERALOGICAL NOTES
1431 Mineralogical Notes: Plumbian ikunolite from Kingsgate, New South Wales
NOTES
1491 Notices
BOOK REVIEW
1486 Book Reviews
INDEX
1493 Index to Volume 47
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