American Mineralogist
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1289 A pressure-induced phase transition in MgSiO3-rich garnet revealed by Raman spectroscopy
1293 Prediction of phase transition in CaSiO3 perovskite and implications for lower mantle structure
1297 Viscosities of hydrous leucogranitic melts: A non-Arrhenian model
REGULAR ARTICLE
1036 Surface structural controls on pyrite oxidation kinetics: An XPS-UPS, STM, and modeling study
1057 Rigid-unit phonon modes and structural phase transitions in framework silicates
1080 FTIR spectroscopy of lawsonite between 82 and 325 K
1092 High-pressure, high-temperature Raman spectroscopic study of ilmenite-type MgSiO3
1097 Neutron powder diffraction study of hydrogarnet to 9.0 Gpa
1105 Sodium tetrasilicate: A complex high-pressure framework silicate (Na6Si3[Si9O27])
1111 Hydrogen positions and thermal expansion in lizardite-1T from Elba: A low-temperature study using Rietveld refinement of neutron diffraction data
1117 X-ray structure refinements of tremolite at 140 and 295 K: Crystal chemistry and petrologic implications
1126 Transmission electron microscopy study of the thermal decomposition of tremolite into clinopyroxene
1133 Quantitative analysis of alkali feldspar minerals using Rietveld refinement of X-ray diffraction data
1141 Synthesis, characterization, and energetics of solid solution along the dolomite-ankerite join, and implications for the stability of ordered CaFe(CO3)2
1148 Tensile strengths of hydrous vesicular glasses: An experimental study
1155 The influence of H2O on the viscosity of a haplogranitic melt
1166 Stratigraphy of the lunar highland crust: Depths of burial of lunar samples from cooling-rate studies
1176 Optimizing the electron microprobe analysis of hydrous alkali aluminosilicate glasses
1186 Direct oxygen measurements of Cr-rich spinel: Implications for spinel stoichiometry
1195 Trace element zoning in pelitic garnet of the Black Hills, South Dakota
1208 Constraint on the time scale of biotite-grade metamorphism during Acadian orogeny from a natural garnet-garnet diffusion couple
1217 Occurrences of intergranular coesite in ultrahigh-P rocks from the Sulu region, eastern China: Implications for lack of fluid during exhumation
1222 Evolution of compositional polarity and zoning in tourmaline during prograde metamorphism of sedimentary rocks in the Swiss Central Alps
1237 Geochemical alteration of pyrochlore group minerals: Betafite subgroup
1249 High-precision analysis of hydrous rhyolitic glass inclusions in quartz phenocrysts using the electron microprobe and INAA
1263 Florencite-(La) with fissiogenic REEs from a natural fission reactor at Bangombé, Gabon
1270 Description and crystal structure of fianelite, Mn2V(V,As)O7·2H2O, a new mineral from Fianel, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland
1277 Laurelite: Its crystal structure and relationship to α-PbF2
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1282 NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
1021 Effects of pressure on order-disorder reactions
1287 PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH MATERIALS. By Alexandra Navrotsky. Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 417 pages.
1287 APPLIED MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY: THEORY AND PRACTICE FOR GEOCHEMISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH, volume 18 Parts III-VI. Edited by S. Mitra. Pergamon Press 1992. xiv + 381 pages.
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