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The genesis of mantle-derived sapphirine Ben-Xun Su, Hong-Fu Zhang, Yan Hu, M. Santosh, Yan-Jie Tang, and Yan Xiao preprint

Determination of Mn valence states in mixed-valent manganates by XANES spectroscopy Alain Manceau, Matthew A. Marcus, and Sylvain Grangeon preprint

Pressure-induced changes in local electronic structures of SiO2 and MgSiO3 polymorphs: Insights from ab initio calculations of O K-edge energy-loss near-edge structure spectroscopy Yoo Soo Yi and Sung Keun Lee preprint

Precipitation of rutile and ilmenite needles in garnet: Implications for extreme metamorphic conditions in the Acadian Orogen, U.S.A. Jay J. Ague and James O. Eckert Jr. preprint

High-pressure study of a natural cancrinite Paolo Lotti, G. Diego Gatta, Nicola Rotiroti, and Fernando Camara preprint

Characterization of smectite to NH4-illite conversion series in the fossil hydrothermal system of Harghita Bai, East Carpathians, Romania Iuliu Bobos preprint

A nanoscopic approach to the kinetics of anhydrite (100) surface growth in the range of temperatures between 60 and 120 °C Juan Morales, Jose Manuel Astilleros, and Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz preprint

Investigation of cation ordering in triclinic sodium birnessite via 23Na MAS NMR spectroscopy Kellie A. Aldi, Jordi Cabana, Paul J. Sideris, and Clare P. Grey preprint

Europium oxidation state and local structure in silicate glasses M. Rita Cicconi, Gabriele Giuli, Eleonora Paris, Werner Ertel-Ingrisch, Peter Ulmer, and Donald B. Dingwell preprint

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analyses of phyllosilicates in petrographic thin sections Sayako Inoue and Toshihiro Kogure preprint

Petedunnite (CaZnSi2O6) -- stability and phase relations in the system CaO4 ZnO-SiO2 Alexandra L. Huber, Soraya Heuss-Assbichler, Karl Thomas Fehr, and Geoffrey D. Bromiley preprint

Determination of Water Content in Silicate Glasses using Raman Spectrometry: Implications for the study of explosive volcanism Charles Le Losq, Daniel R. Neuville, Roberto Moretti, and Jacques Roux preprint

U-Pb ID-TIMS dating applied to U-rich inclusions in garnet Selma M. Lima, Fernando Corfu, Ana M.R. Neiva, and Joao M.F. Ramos preprint

The dual behavior of the beta-As4S4 altered by light Matteo Zoppi and Giovanni Pratesi preprint

Structural stability, cation ordering, and local relaxation along the AlNbO--Al0.5Cr0.5NbO4 join Matteo Ardit, Michele Dondi, and Giuseppe Cruciani preprint

Revision of the crystal structure and chemical formula of weeksite, K2(UO2)2(Si5O13)·4H2O Karla Fejfarova, Jakub Plasil, Hexiong Yang, Jiri Cejka, Michal Dusek, Robert T. Downs, Madison C. Barkley, and Radek Skoda preprint

Experimental incorporation of Th into xenotime at middle to lower crustal P-T utilizing alkali-bearing fluids Daniel E. Harlov and Richard Wirth preprint

Density functional calculation of the heats of formation of rare-earth orthophosphates (Open Access) James R. Rustad
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The morphology of 1 the reaction front of the dissolution-precipitation reaction rutile + wollastonite = titanite in time series experiments at 600 °C/400 MPa Friedrich Lucassen, Gerhard Franz, Richard Wirth, Matthias Weise, and Andreas Hertwig preprint

Wassonite: A New Titanium Monosulfide Mineral in the Yamato 691 Enstatite Chondrite Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, Simon J. Clemett, Alan E. Rubin, Byeon-Gak Choi Shouliang Zhang, Zia Rahman, Katsunari Oikawa, and Lindsay P. Keller preprint

The dehydroxylation of serpentine group minerals Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Carlotta Giacobbe, and Cecilia Viti preprint

Falsterite, Ca2MgMn2+2(Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)4Zn4(PO4)8(OH)4(H2O)14, a new secondary phosphate mineral from the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, William B. Simmons, James W. Nizamoff, and Robert W. Whitmore preprint

Nature of rehydroxylation in dioctahedral 2:1 layer clay minerals Arkadiusz Derkowski, Victor A. Drits, and Douglas K. McCarty preprint

Zaccagnaite-3R, a new Zn-Al hydrotalcite polytype from El Soplao cave (Cantabria, Spain) Rafael P. Lozano, Carlos Rossi, Angel La Iglesia, and Emilio Matesanz preprint

Polysaccharide-catalyzed nucleaction and growth of disordered dolomite --a potential precursor of sedimentary dolomite Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Hiromi Konishi, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, and Eric E. Roden preprint

Experimental VNIR reflectance spectroscopy of gypsum dehydration: Investigating the gypsum to bassanite transition Tanya N. Harrison preprint

Titanium in muscovite, biotite, and hornblende: Modeling, thermometry and rutile activities of metapelites and amphibolites Jennifer A. Chambers and Matthew J. Kohn preprint

Hanjiangite, a new barium-vanadium phyllosilicate carbonate mineral from the Shiti barium deposit in the Dabashan region, China Jiajun Liu, Guowu Li, Qian Mao, Shenghua Wu, Zhenjiang Liu, Shangguo Su, Ming Xiong, and Xiaoyan Yu preprint

Veatchite: Structural relationships of the three polytypes Joel D. Grice and Allan Pring preprint

TOF-SIMS and Electron microprobe investigations of zoned magmatic orthopyroxenes: First results of trace and minor element analysis with implications for diffusion modeling Kate Saunders, Stefan Rinnen, Jon Blundy, Ralf Dohmen, Stephan Klemme, and Heinrich F. Arlinghaus preprint

Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction Yu Ye, Joseph R. Smyth, and Paul Boni preprint

The heat capacity of fayalite at high temperatures Artur Benisek, Herbert Kroll, and Edgar Dachs preprint

The lower-pressure stability of glaucophane in the presence of paragonite and quartz in the system Na2O-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O Ashley Michelle Basora, David M. Jenkins, and David L. Bish preprint

Vibrational and elastic properties of ferromagnesite across the electronic spin-pairing transition of iron Jung-Fu Lin, Jin Liu, Caleb Jacobs, and Vitali B. Prakapenka preprint

Electronic spin states of ferric and ferrous iron in the lower-mantle silicate perovskite Jung-Fu Lin, Ercan E. Alp, Zhu Mao, Toru Inoue, Catherine McCammon, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, and Jiyong Zhao preprint

Compressibility and thermal expansion of hydrous ringwoodite with 2.5(3) wt% H2O Yu Ye, David A. Brown, Joseph R. Smyth, Wendy R. Panero, Steven D. Jacobsen, Yun-Yuan Chang, Joshua P. Townsend, Sylvia-Monique Thomas, Erik H. Hauri, Przemyslaw Dera, and Daniel J. Frost preprint

Sol-gel synthesis of nanocrystalline fayalite (Fe2SiO4) Michael T. DeAngelis, Adam J. Rondinone, Michelle D. Pawel, Theodore C. Labotka, and Lawrence M. Anovitz preprint

Formation of nanoscale Th-coffinite A.P. Deditius, V. Pointeau, J.M. Zhang, and R.C. Ewing preprint

Pavlovskyite Ca8(SiO4)2(Si3O10) -- a new mineral of altered silicate-carbonate xenoliths from the two Russian type localities: Birkhin massif, Baikal Lake area and Upper Chegem caldera, North Caucasus Evgeny V. Galuskin, Frank Gfeller, Valentina B. Savelyeva, Thomas Armbruster, Biljana Lazic, Irina O. Galuskina, Daniel M. Tobbens, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Piotr Dzier anowski, Nikolai N. Pertsev and Viktor M. Gazeev preprint

The crystal structure of metanatroautunite, Na[(UO2)(PO4)](H2O)3, from the Lake Boga granite, Victoria, Australia Stuart J. Mills, Anthony R. Kampf, and William D. Brich preprint

Coralloite, Mn2+Mn3+ 2(AsO4)2(OH)2 · 4H2O, a new mixed valence Mn hydrate arsenate: Crystal structure and relationships with bermanite and whitmoreite mineral groups Athos Maria Callegari, Massimo Boiocchi, Marco E. Ciriotti, and Corrado Balestra preprint

High-pressure and high-temperature phase transitions in FeTiO3 and a new dense FeTi3O7 structure Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Meiguang Zhang, Takehiko Yagi, and Yanming Ma preprint

Incorporation of Si into TiO2 phases at high pressure Alberto Escudero and Falko Langenhorst preprint