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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 100, no. 1        January 2015 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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An in situ high-pressure NMR study of sodium coordination environment compressibility in albite glass
Sarah J. Gaudio, Trenton G. Edwards and Sabyasachi Sen
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Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of AlSO4(OH): A titanite-group member
Alan J. Anderson, Hexiong Yang and Robert T. Downs
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EDITORIAL
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The American Mineralogist at 100 years, and a mineralogy renaissance
Keith Putirka
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
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At the blurry edge of mineralogy
Peter J. Heaney
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Mineral evolution and Earth history
Dwight C. Bradley
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OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
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Franciscan geologic history constrained by tectonic/olistostromal high-grade metamafic blocks in the iconic California Mesozoic-Cenozoic accretionary complex
W.G. Ernst
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The rapid expansion of environmental mineralogy in unconventional ways: Beyond the accepted definition of a mineral, the latest technology, and using nature as our guide
Manuel A. Caraballo, F. Marc Michel and Michael F. Hochella Jr.
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CROSSROADS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
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Microelectronic junctions in arsenian pyrite due to impurity and mixed sulfide heterogeneity
Jamie S. Laird, Colin M. MacRae, Angela Halfpenny, Ross Large and Chris G. Ryan
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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
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The structure of water-saturated carbonate melts
Dionysis I. Foustoukos and Bjorn O. Mysen
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In-situ measurements of fluorine and chlorine speciation and partitioning between melts and aqueous fluids in the Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system
Celia Dalou, Bjorn O. Mysen and Dionysis Foustoukos
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
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High-pressure high-temperature transitions in MgCr2O4 and crystal structures of new Mg2Cr2O5 and post-spinel MgCr2O4 phases with implications for ultrahigh-pressure chromitites in ophiolites
Takayuki Ishii, Hiroshi Kojitani, Kiyoshi Fujino, Hitoshi Yusa, Daisuke Mori, Yoshiyuki Inaguma, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Kazunari Yamaura and Masaki Akaogi
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WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
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Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
Melissa D. Lane, Janice L. Bishop, M. Darby Dyar, Takahiro Hiroi, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish, Penelope L. King and A. Deanne Rogers
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REGULAR ARTICLE
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Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)
Urs Schaltegger, Alexey Ulianov, Othmar Müntener, Maria Ovtcharova, Irena Peytcheva, Pierre Vonlanthen, Torsten Vennemann, Marco Antognini and Fabio Girlanda
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Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.)
Encarnación Roda-Robles, William Simmons, Alfonso Pesquera, Pedro P. Gil-Crespo, James Nizamoff and José Torres-Ruiz
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Applications of Hirshfeld surfaces to mineralogy: An example of alumohydrocalcite, and the classification of the dundasite group minerals
Marcin Stachowicz, Jan Parafiniuk, Claire Wilson, Simon Coles and Krzysztof Woźniak
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Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite
Kamil Klier, Jeffery A. Spirko and Kai M. Landskron
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The system Na2CO3-FeCO3 at 6 GPa and its relation to the system Na2CO3-FeCO3-MgCO3
Anton Shatskiy, Sergey V. Rashchenko, Eiji Ohtani, Konstantin D. Litasov, Mikhail V. Khlestov, Yuri M. Borzdov, Igor N. Kupriyanov, Igor S. Sharygin and Yuri N. Palyanov
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Chlorine-hydroxyl diffusion in pargasitic amphibole
Wen Su, Don R. Baker, Luping Pu, Liping Bai, Xin Liu and Cedrick O’Shaughnessy
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The use of cation-cation and anion-anion bonds to augment the bond-valence model
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew Davis, W. Joel Johansen, Charles Andros and Larissa Lind
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AIM analysis and the form of the bond-valence equation
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Larissa Lind, Charles Andros, John Hunt, Hannah Checketts and Tyler Goodell
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Atomistic simulation on mixing thermodynamics of calcite-smithsonite solid solutions
Xin Liu, Xiancai Lu, Xiandong Liu and Huiqun Zhou
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Combined geochemistry and geochronology constrains coupled subduction of oceanic and continental crust in the Huwan shear zone, central China
Hao Cheng and Jeffrey D. Vervoort
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Near-infrared investigation of folding sepiolite
Maria Tsampodimou, Vanessa-Jane Bukas, Elizabeth T. Stathopoulou, Vassilis Gionis and Georgios D. Chryssikos
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First-principles study of sulfur isotope fractionation in pyrite-type disulfides
Shanqi Liu, Yongbing Li, Jianming Liu and Yaolin Shi
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Tetrataenite in terrestrial rock
Bibhuranjan Nayak and Franz Michael Meyer
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Thermo-compression of pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions: Non-linear compositional dependence
Wei Du, Simon Martin Clark and David Walker
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Phase relationships in the system K2CO3-CaCO3 at 6 GPa and 900–1450 °C
Anton Shatskiy, Yuri M. Borzdov, Konstantin D. Litasov, Igor S. Sharygin, Yuri N. Palyanov and Eiji Ohtani
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Trace-element partitioning between plagioclase, alkali feldspar, Ti-magnetite, biotite, apatite, and evolved potassic liquids from Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy)
Lorenzo Fedele, Michele Lustrino, Leone Melluso, Vincenzo Morra, Alberto Zanetti and Riccardo Vannucci
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Synthetic and natural ammonium-bearing tourmaline
Bernd Wunder, Eleanor Berryman, Birgit Plessen, Dieter Rhede, Monika Koch-Müller and Wilhelm Heinrich
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: GLASSES, MELTS, AND FLUIDS, AS TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING VOLCANIC PROCESSES AND HAZARDS
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Anhydrite stability and the effect of Ca on the behavior of sulfur in felsic magmas
Ruifang Huang and Hans Keppler
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ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Nuragheite, Th(MoO4)2·H2O, the second natural thorium molybdate and its relationships to ichnusaite and synthetic Th(MoO4)2
Paolo Orlandi, Cristian Biagioni, Luca Bindi and Stefano Merlino
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
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Structural effects on incorporated water in carbonated apatites
Jennifer E. Goldenberg, Zachary Wilt, Demetra V. Schermerhorn, Jill D. Pasteris and Claude H. Yoder
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New constraints on electron-beam induced halogen migration in apatite
Michael J. Stock, Madeleine C.S. Humphreys, Victoria C. Smith, Roger D. Johnson, David M. Pyle and EIMF
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THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS
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Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective
Charles K. Shearer, Stephen M. Elardo, Noah E. Petro, Lars E. Borg and Francis M. McCubbin
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NEW MINERALS
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
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BOOK REVIEW
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Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Volcanoes: A User’s Manual
Matthew Watson
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