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American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 99, no. 8-9        August-September 2014 Table of Contents

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LETTERS
 

1798Kumdykolite from the ultrahigh-pressure granulite of the Bohemian Massif
Jana Kotková, Radek Škoda and Vladimír Machovič
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1802Crystal chemistry of dense hydrous magnesium silicates: The structure of phase H, MgSiH2O4, synthesized at 45 GPa and 1000 °C
Luca Bindi, Masayuki Nishi, Jun Tsuchiya and Tetsuo Irifune
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OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
 

1521In-situ high-pressure transmission electron microscopy for Earth and materials sciences
Jun Wu and Peter R. Buseck
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SPINELS RENAISSANCE—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
 

1528Bond-length fluctuation in the orthorhombic 3 × 3 × 1 superstructure of LiMn2O4 spinel
Nobuo Ishizawa, Kenji Tateishi, Shuji Oishi and Shunji Kishimoto
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH’S MANTLE
 

1537Evidence for multiple diamondite-forming events in the mantle
Sami Mikhail, Daniel Howell and Francis M. McCubbin
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1544Experimental determination of melting in the systems enstatite-magnesite and magnesite-calcite from 15 to 80 GPa
Andrew R. Thomson, Michael J. Walter, Oliver T. Lord and Simon C. Kohn
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1555The spin state of iron in Fe3+-bearing Mg-perovskite and its crystal chemistry at high pressure
Izumi Mashino, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Takaya Mitsui, Ryo Masuda, Makoto Seto, Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi and Satoshi Nakano
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1562Hexagonal Na0.41[Na0.125Mg0.79Al0.085]2[Al0.79Si0.21]6O12 (NAL phase): Crystal structure refinement and elasticity
Martha G. Pamato, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Dmytro M. Trots, Razvan Caracas and Daniel J. Frost
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MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL
 

1570Multivariate analysis of Raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars
Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Pablo Sobron, Catherine Lefebvre and Fernando Rull
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1580Spectral and thermal properties of perchlorate salts and implications for Mars
Janice L. Bishop, Richard Quinn and M. Darby Dyar
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1593Reflectance spectroscopy and optical functions for hydrated Fe-sulfates
Karly M. Pitman, Eldar Z. Noe Dobrea, Corey S. Jamieson, James B. Dalton III, William J. Abbey and Emily C.S. Joseph
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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
 

1604Redox effects on calcite-portlandite-fluid equilibria at forearc conditions: Carbon mobility, methanogenesis, and reduction melting of calcite
Codi Lazar, Chi Zhang, Craig E. Manning and Bjorn O. Mysen
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1616Constraints on the mobilization of Zr in magmatic-hydrothermal processes in subduction zones from in situ fluid-melt partitioning experiments
Marion Louvel, Carmen Sanchez-Valle, Wim J. Malfait, Herve Cardon, Denis Testemale and Jean-Louis Hazemann
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LUNAR HIGHLANDS REVISITED
 

1626The petrogenesis of impact basin melt rocks in lunar meteorite Shişr 161
Axel Wittmann, Randy L. Korotev, Bradley L. Jolliff, Thomas J. Lapen and Anthony J. Irving
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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
 

1648The nearly complete dissociation of water in glasses with strong aluminum avoidance
Wim J. Malfait
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ARTICLES
 

1653Sepiolite-palygorskite polysomatic series: Oriented aggregation as a crystal growth mechanism in natural environments
Emilia García-Romero and Mercedes Suárez
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1662Bentonite evolution at elevated pressures and temperatures: An experimental study for generic nuclear repository designs
Michael C. Cheshire, Florie A. Caporuscio, Michael S. Rearick, Carlos Jové-Colón and Mary Kate McCarney
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1676Rates of Li diffusion in garnet: Coupled transport of Li and Y+REEs
Ryan C. Cahalan, Eric D. Kelly and William D. Carlson
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1683Characteristics of djerfisherite from fluid-rich, metasomatized alkaline intrusive environments and anhydrous enstatite chondrites and achondrites
Patricia L. Clay, Brian O’Driscoll, Brian G.J. Upton and Henner Busemann
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1694Ferroan geikielite and coupled spinel-rutile exsolution from titanohematite: Interface characterization and magnetic properties
Peter Robinson, Falko Langenhorst, S.A. McEnroe, Karl Fabian and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
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1713Constraints on the incorporation mechanism of chlorine in peralkaline and peraluminous Na2O-CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 glasses
Amrei Baasner, Ivan Hung, Thomas F. Kemp, Ray Dupree, Burkhard C. Schmidt and Sharon L. Webb
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1724Interlayer structure model of tri-hydrated low-charge smectite by X-ray diffraction and Monte Carlo modeling in the Grand Canonical ensemble
Baptiste Dazas, Eric Ferrage, Alfred Delville and Bruno Lanson
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1736Tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ in oxides and silicates: Effect of local environment on optical properties
Michele Dondi, Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani and Chiara Zanelli
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1746Bioreduction of biotite and chlorite by a Shewanella species
Diana R. Brookshaw, Jonathan R. Lloyd, David J. Vaughan and Richard A.D. Pattrick      Deposit Item
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1755A variable-temperature neutron diffraction study of serandite: A Mn-silicate framework with a very strong, two-proton site, hydrogen bond
Edward R. Williams and Mark T. Weller
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1761A new biogenic, struvite-related phosphate, the ammonium-analog of hazenite, (NH4)NaMg2(PO4)2·14H2O
Hexiong Yang, Livia Martinelli, Flavia Tasso, Anna Rosa Sprocati, Flavia Pinzari, Zhenxian Liu, Robert T. Downs and Henry J. Sun
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1767Chromo-alumino-povondraite, NaCr3(Al4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Leonid Reznitskii, Christine M. Clark, Frank C. Hawthorne, Joel D. Grice, Henrik Skogby, Ulf Hålenius and Ferdinando Bosi
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1774The occurrence of platinum-group element and gold minerals in the Bon Accord Ni-oxide body, South Africa
Federica Zaccarini, Marian Tredoux, Duncan E. Miller, Giorgio Garuti, Thomas Aiglsperger and Joaquin A. Proenza
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1783Beshtauite, (NH4)2(UO2)(SO4)2·2H2O, a new mineral from Mount Beshtau, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Igor V. Pekov, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt, Nikita V. Chukanov and Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy
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1788High-pressure phase transitions in FeCr2O4 and structure analysis of new post-spinel FeCr2O4 and Fe2Cr2O5 phases with meteoritical and petrological implications
Takayuki Ishii, Hiroshi Kojitani, Shoichi Tsukamoto, Kiyoshi Fujino, Daisuke Mori, Yoshiyuki Inaguma, Noriyoshi Tsujino, Takashi Yoshino, Daisuke Yamazaki, Yuji Higo, Kenichi Funakoshi and Masaki Akaogi
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1806NEW MINERAL NAMES
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1814BOOK REVIEW
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