American Mineralogist - October 2007 Table of Contents

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Vol. 92, no. 10

An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

October 2007

LETTERS

1756 Meridianiite: A new mineral species observed on Earth and predicted to exist on Mars
R.C. Peterson, W. Nelson, B. Madu, and H.F. Shurvell
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1760 Equations of state of CaIrO₃ perovskite and post-perovskite phases
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Reidar G. Trønnes, and Daniel J. Frost
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1764 Hydrogen-carbonate ion in synthetic high-pressure apatite
Michael E. Fleet and Xi Liu
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1768 Effects of irradiation damage on the back-scattering of electrons: Silicon-implanted silicon
Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, Dieter Grambole, and Ghislain Trullenque
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1772 High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2 μm gradients and slow diffusion in zircon
F. Zeb Page, T. Ushikubo, N.T. Kita, L.R. Riciputi, and J.W. Valley
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ARTICLES

1545 Ferric iron in Al-bearing akimotoite coexisting with iron-nickel metal in a shock-melt vein in an L-6 chondrite
Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Ahmed El Goresy, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek, Friedrich Seifert, David C. Rubie, Ming Chen, and Xiande Xie
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1550 Solidification and microstructures of binary ice-I/hydrate eutectic aggregates
Christine McCarthy, Reid F. Cooper, Stephen H. Kirby, Karen D. Rieck, and Laura A. Stern
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1561

A monazite oxygen isotope thermometer
Dan O. Breecker and Zachary D. Sharp
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1573

The albite fusion curve re-examined: New experiments and the high-pressure density and compressibility of high albite and NaAlSi₃O₈ liquid
Travis J. Tenner, Rebecca A. Lange, and Robert T. Downs
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1586

XRD and HRTEM analyses of stacking structures in sudoite, di-trioctahedral chlorite
Jun Kameda, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Ryuji Kitagawa, and Toshihiro Kogure
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1593

Vibrational dynamics in H+-substituted forsterite: A first-principles molecular dynamics study
Dawn M. Shaw and John S. Tse
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1601

Fluorophlogopite from Biancavilla (Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy): Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of a new F-dominant analog of phlogopite
Antonio Gianfagna, Fernando Scordari, Simona Mazziotti-Tagliani, Gennaro Ventruti, and Luisa Ottolini
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1610

Pressure-induced over-hydration of thomsonite: A synchrotron powder diffraction study
Anna Yu. Likhacheva, Yuriy V. Seryotkin, Andrey Yu. Manakov, Sergey V. Goryainov, Aleksey I. Ancharov, and Mikhail A. Sheromov
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1616

High-pressure optical spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies on synthetic cobalt aluminum silicate garnet
Michail N. Taran, Fabrizio Nestola, Haruo Ohashi, Monika Koch-Müller, Tonci Balic-Zunic, and Lars Arnskov Olsen
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1624

In situ observation of the decomposition of kyanite at high pressures and high temperatures
Shigeaki Ono, Yoichi Nakajima, and Kenichi Funakoshi
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1630

Mineralogy and crystal structure of bouazzerite from Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: Bi-As-Fe nanoclusters containing Fe³⁺ in trigonal prismatic coordination
Joël Brugger, Nicolas Meisser, Sergey Krivovichev, Thomas Armbruster, and Georges Favreau
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1640

Single-crystal structure refinement of diaspore at 50 GPa
Alexandra Friedrich, Eiken Haussühl, Reinhard Boehler, Wolfgang Morgenroth, Erick A. Juarez-arellano, and Björn Winkler
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1645

FTIR spectroscopy of Ti-rich pargasites from Lherz and the detection of O2– at the anionic O3 site in amphiboles
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Fabio Bellatreccia
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1652

The relative stability of monazite and huttonite at 300–900 °C and 200–1000 MPa: Metasomatism and the propagation of metastable mineral phases
Daniel E. Harlov, Richard Wirth, and Callum J. Hetherington
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1665

Acoustic dissipation associated with phase transitions in lawsonite, CaAl₂Si₂O₇(OH)₂·H₂O
Ruth E.A. Mcknight, Michael A. Carpenter, Tim W. Darling, Andy Buckley, and Paul A. Taylor
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1673

Magnetic anisotropy of carbonate minerals at room temperature and 77 K
Volkmar Schmidt, Ann M. Hirt, Kathrin Hametner, and Detlef Günther
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1685

Non-ideality and defectivity of the åkermanite-gehlenite solid solution: An X-ray diffraction and TEM study
Mauro Gemmi, Marco Merlini, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Gilberto Artioli
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1695

The system Al₂O₃-P₂O₅-H₂O at temperatures below 200 °C: Experimental data on the stability of variscite and metavariscite AlPO₄·2H₂O
Kirsten Drüppel, Andreas Hösch, and Gerhard Franz
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1704

Low-pressure decomposition of chrysotile as a function of time and temperature
P.A. Candela, C.D. Crummett, D.J. Earnest, M.R. Frank, and A.G. Wylie
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1714

Ion exchange equilibrium and structural changes in clinoptilolite irradiated with β- and γ-radiation: Monovalent cations
Daniel Moraetis, George E. Christidis, and Vasilios Perdikatsis
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1731

Investigation of dioctahedral smectite hydration properties by modeling of X-ray diffraction profiles: Influence of layer charge and charge location
Eric Ferrage, Bruno Lanson, Boris A. Sakharov, Nicolas Geoffroy, Emmanuel Jacquot, and Victor A. Drits
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1744

Growth of large (1 mm) MgSiO₃ perovskite single crystals: A thermal gradient method at ultrahigh pressure
Anton Shatskiy, Hiroshi Fukui, Takuya Matsuzaki, Keiji Shinoda, Akira Yoneda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, and Tomoo Katsura
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1750

Carbon is not required during crystallization to produce ferrobasalts/ferrodiorites (FTP rocks)
Matthew L. Whitaker, Donald H. Lindsley, Jan M. Kubicek Whitaker, and Hanna Nekvasil
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1776

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Glenn Poirier and Paula C. Piilonen
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1780

BOOK REVIEW
Kurt Bucher
Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals by Philippe Roth. (2006) ISBN: 3-980-7561-8-1, 239 pages, Kristallographik Verlag, Achberg, Germany.
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