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American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 99, no. 10        October 2014 Table of Contents

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LETTERS
 

2138Identification of hydrogen defects linked to boron substitution in synthetic forsterite and natural olivine
Jannick Ingrin, István Kovács, Etienne Deloule, Etienne Balan, Marc Blanchard, Simon C. Kohn and Joerg Hermann
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2142Densified glasses as structural proxies for high-pressure melts: Configurational compressibility of silicate melts retained in quenched and decompressed glasses
Wim J. Malfait, Rita Seifert and Carmen Sanchez-Valle
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2146Geobarometry from host-inclusion systems: The role of elastic relaxation
Ross J. Angel, Mattia L. Mazzucchelli, Matteo Alvaro, Paolo Nimis and Fabrizio Nestola
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
 

1817Pauling’s rules, in a world of non-spherical atoms
Robert T. Downs
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1818Theoretical and applied implications of the structural order of irradiated vermiculite
Celia Marcos
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1820An examination of the Ti-in-quartz thermobarometer in rocks that contain dynamically recrystallized quartz: Re-equilibration of [Ti] during recrystallization
John M. Hughes
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LUNAR HIGHLANDS REVISITED
 

1821Visible-infrared spectral properties of iron-bearing aluminate spinel under lunar-like redox conditions
Colin R.M. Jackson, Leah C. Cheek, Kelsey B. Williams, Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Carle M. Pieters, Stephen W. Parman, Reid F. Cooper, M. Darby Dyar, Melissa Nelms and Mark R. Salvatore
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1834VNIR spectral variability of the igneous stratified Stillwater Complex: A tool to map lunar highlands
Cristian Carli, Giovanni Serventi and Maria Sgavetti
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1849Spinel-rich lithologies in the lunar highland crust: Linking lunar samples with crystallization experiments and remote sensing
Juliane Gross, Peter J. Isaacson, Allan H. Treiman, Loan Le and Julia K. Gorman
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1860Phosphate-halogen metasomatism of lunar granulite 79215: Impact-induced fractionation of volatiles and incompatible elements
Allan H. Treiman, Jeremy W. Boyce, Juliane Gross, Yunbin Guan, John M. Eiler and Edward M. Stolper
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1871Reflectance spectroscopy of plagioclase-dominated mineral mixtures: Implications for characterizing lunar anorthosites remotely
Leah C. Cheek and Carle M. Pieters
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1893The distribution of Mg-spinel across the Moon and constraints on crustal origin
Carle M. Pieters, Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Leah Cheek, Deepak Dhingra, Tabb Prissel, Colin Jackson, Daniel Moriarty, Stephen Parman and Lawrence A. Taylor
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ARTICLES
 

1911The occurrence and composition of chevkinite-(Ce) and perrierite-(Ce) in tholeiitic intrusive rocks and lunar mare basalt
Janet R. Muhling, Alexandra A. Suvorova and Birger Rasmussen
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1922Garnet as a major carrier of the Y and REE in the granitic rocks: An example from the layered anorogenic granite in the Brno Batholith, Czech Republic
Sven Hönig, Renata Čopjaková, Radek Škoda, Milan Novák, David Dolejš, Jaromír Leichmann and Michaela Vašinová Galiová
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1942Mid-infrared optical constants of clinopyroxene and orthoclase derived from oriented single-crystal reflectance spectra
Jessica A. Arnold, Timothy D. Glotch and Anna M. Plonka
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1956Time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of the dehydration behavior of chalcophanite
Jeffrey E. Post and Peter J. Heaney
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1962Ab initio investigations of dioctahedral interlayer-deficient mica: Modeling particles of illite found within gas shale
Dawn Geatches, Douglas McCarty and Jennifer Wilcox
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1973Trona at extreme conditions: A pollutant-sequestering material at high pressures and low temperatures
Earl O’Bannon III, Christine M. Beavers and Quentin Williams
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1985In-situ U-Th/Pb geochronology of (urano)thorite
John M. Cottle
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1996Temperature-induced amorphization of Na-zeolite A: A view from multi-nuclear high-resolution solid-state NMR
Hyun Na Kim and Sung Keun Lee
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2008“Silicified” pyrochlore from nepheline syenite (mariupolite) of the Mariupol Massif, SE Ukraine: A new insight into the role of silicon in the pyrochlore structure
Magdalena Dumańska-Słowik, Adam Pieczka, Gioacchino Tempesta, Zbigniew Olejniczak and Wiesław Heflik
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2018Physio-chemical properties of gamma-irradiated vermiculite and their significance for radiation protection and thermoluminescence
Sukhnandan Kaur, Surinder Singh and Lakhwant Singh
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2025Ti resetting in quartz during dynamic recrystallization: Mechanisms and significance
Kyle T. Ashley, William D. Carlson, Richard D. Law and Robert J. Tracy
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2031Thermodynamic study of monoclinic pyrrhotite in equilibrium with pyrite in the Ag-Fe-S system by solid-state electrochemical cell technique
Dmitriy A. Chareev, Mikhail V. Voronin and Evgeniy G. Osadchii
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2035Phase diagram and P-V-T equation of state of Al-bearing seifertite at lowermost mantle conditions
Denis Andrault, Reidar G. Trønnes, Zuzana Konôpková, Wolfgang Morgenroth, Hanns P. Liermann, Guillaume Morard and Mohamed Mezouar
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2043Crystal structure of Guinier-Preston zones in orthopyroxene: Z-contrast imaging and ab inito study
Huifang Xu, Zhizhang Shen, Hiromi Konishi and Gufeng Luo
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2049Crystal chemistry and surface configurations of two polylithionite-1M crystals
Chiara Elmi, Maria Franca Brigatti, Stephen Guggenheim, Luca Pasquali, Monica Montecchi and Stefano Nannarone
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2060Crystal chemistry of synthetic Ti-Mg-bearing hibonites: A single-crystal X-ray study
Mattia Giannini, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran and Falko Langenhorst
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2068Mineralogy and crystal chemistry of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu in a deep-sea Pacific polymetallic nodule
Alain Manceau, Martine Lanson and Yoshio Takahashi
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2084Agakhanovite-(Y), ideally (YCa)2KBe3Si12O30, a new milarite-group mineral from the Heftetjern pegmatite, Tørdal, Southern Norway: Description and crystal structure
Frank C. Hawthorne, Yassir A. Abdu, Neil A. Ball, Petr Čern. and Roy Kristiansen
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ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 

2089Ichnusaite, Th(MoO4)2·3H2O, the first natural thorium molybdate: Occurrence, description, and crystal structure
Paolo Orlandi, Cristian Biagioni, Luca Bindi and Fabrizio Nestola
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2095Quantification of α-particle radiation damage in zircon
Katie M. Smye, Clive Brigden, Eric R. Vance and Ian Farnan
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MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL
 

2105Spectral properties of Ca-sulfates: Gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite
Janice L. Bishop, Melissa D. Lane, M. Darby Dyar, Sara J. King, Adrian J. Brown and Gregg A. Swayze
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2116Flower-like apatite recording microbial processes through deep geological time and its implication to the search for mineral records of life on Mars
Si Sun, Lung S. Chan and Yi-Liang Li
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2126Gypsum in modern Kamchatka volcanic hot springs and the Lower Cambrian black shale: Applied to the microbial-mediated precipitation of sulfates on Mars
Min Tang, Anouk Ehreiser and Yi-Liang Li
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2150NEW MINERAL NAMES
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2159BOOK REVIEW
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