American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
1221 Mammon and prestige in earth science departments
1235 Electrical conductivity of diopside: Evidence for oxygen vacancies
1255 Stability of orthoenstatite at high temperature and low pressure
1264 Thermochemistry of pyroxenes on the join Mg2Si2O6-CaMgSi2O6: A revision of the model for pressures up to 30 kbar
1267 Stoichiometry of the iron oxidation reaction in silicate melts
1275 Experimental evidence on the substitution of Ti in biotite
1285 Experimental evaluation of the MnCO3 + SiO2 = MnSiO3 + CO2 equilibrium at 1 kbar
1292 Prograde versus retrograde chlorite-amphibole intergrowths in a calc-silicate rock
1302 Fluid infiltration through the Big Horse Limestone Member in the Notch Peak contact metamorphic aureole, Utah
1325 Mechanism of illite formation during smectite-to-illite conversion in a hydrothermal system
1335 Ostwald ripening and interparticle-diffraction effects for illite crystals
1346 Optical (diffuse reflectance) and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of nontronite and related Fe-bearing smectites
1355 Study of the MgGeO3 polymorphs (orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, and ilmenite structures) by calorimetry, spectroscopy, and phase equilibria
1366 Vanadium- and chromium-bearing andalusite: Occurrence and optical-absorption spectroscopy
1370 Thermal behavior of the crystal structure of strontian piemontite
1377 Definition and range of composition of naturally occurring minerals with the pseudobrookite structure
1384 Stability of genthelvite, Zn4(BeSiO4)3S: An exercise in chalcophilicity using exchange operators
1395 Iron oxide mineralogy of some deep-sea ferromanganese crusts
1401 Chalcophanite, ZnMn3O7·3H2O: New crystal structure determinations
1405 Chemistry and radiation effects of thorite-group minerals from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico
1420 Tungsten-bearing yttrobetafite in lunar granophyre
1426 Structure of lengenbachite: A high-resolution transmission electron microscope study
1434 Epistilbite: Symmetry and twinning
1440 Dorrite [Ca2(Mg2Fe3+4)(Al4Si2)O20], a new member of the aenigmatite group from a pyrometamorphic melt-rock
1449 Sputter depth profiling in mineral-surface analysis
1457 CHEMOD: An automated chemical and modal analysis technique
1465 Partial melting of fenitized crustal xenoliths in the Oldoinyo Lengai carbonatitic volcano, Tanzania: Discussion
1468 Partial melting of fenitized crustal xenoliths in the Oldoinyo Lengai carbonatitic volcano, Tanzania: Reply
1472 Sericite from the Silverton caldera, Colorado: Discussion
1475 Sericite from the Silverton caldera, Colorado: Reply
1478 Effects of quench methods on Fe3+/Fe2+ ratios: Discussion
1479 Effects of quench methods on Fe3+/Fe2+ ratios: Reply
1480 Protocols for scientists on the deposition of investigated mineral specimens
1481 EXCALIBR revisited
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1492 NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
1500 BOOK REVIEWS
MEMORIAL
1483 Memorial of Martin Julian Buerger
1486 Memorial of Charles Meyer
1489 Memorial of Hans P. Eugster
ERRATA
1501 ERRATA
INDEX
1502 INDEX
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