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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 100, no. 5-6        May-June 2015 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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Experimental confirmation of high-temperature silicate liquid immiscibility in multicomponent ferrobasaltic systems
Tong Hou and Ilya V. Veksler
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Discovery of stishovite in Apollo 15299 sample
Shohei Kaneko, Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, Tomoko Arai, Naohisa Hirao and Kazuhisa Sato
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
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Reaction pathways toward the formation of dolomite
Carlos M. Pina
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Zircon dissolution and growth during metamorphism
Suzanne L. Baldwin
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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
1021
Linear partitioning in binary solutions: A review with a novel partitioning array
S.A. Morse
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
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The many facets of apatite
John M. Hughes
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Thermal expansion of F-Cl apatite crystalline solutions
Guy Hovis, Tony Abraham, William Hudacek, Sarah Wildermuth, Brian Scott, Caitlin Altomare, Aaron Medford, Maricate Conlon, Matthew Morris, Amanda Leaman, Christine Almer, Gary Tomaino and Daniel Harlov
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Pieczkaite, ideally Mn5(PO4)3Cl, a new apatite-supergroup mineral from Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada: Description and crystal structure
Kimberly Tait, Neil A. Ball and Frank C. Hawthorne
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
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First-principles prediction of pressure-enhanced defect segregation and migration at MgO grain boundaries
Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh and Ashok K. Verma
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Optical properties of siderite (FeCO3) across the spin transition: Crossover to iron-rich carbonates in the lower mantle
Sergey S. Lobanov, Alexander F. Goncharov and Konstantin D. Litasov
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Calculation of the energetics of water incorporation in majorite garnet
Jeffrey S. Pigott, Kate Wright, Julian D. Gale and Wendy R. Panero
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Influence of hydration on 23Na, 27Al, and 29Si MAS-NMR spectra of sodium saponites and sodium micas
Jesus Sanz, Isabel Sobrados and Jean-Louis Robert
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Quantification of water in majoritic garnet
Sylvia-Monique Thomas, Kathryn Wilson, Monika Koch-Müller, Erik H. Hauri, Catherine McCammon, Steven D. Jacobsen, John Lazarz, Dieter Rhede, Minghua Ren, Neal Blair, and Stephan Lenz
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BUILDING PLANETS: THE DYNAMICS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CORE FORMATION
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How to make a planet: An introduction
Tracy Rushmer and Heather Watson
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Modeling siderophile elements during core formation and accretion, and the role of the deep mantle and volatiles
Kevin Righter
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WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
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Optical constants of synthetic potassium, sodium, and hydronium jarosite
Elizabeth C. Sklute, Timothy D. Glotch, Jennifer L. Piatek, William R. Woerner, Alexis A. Martone and Meredith L. Kraner
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REGULAR ARTICLE
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A photoluminescence study of REE3+ emissions in radiation-damaged zircon
Christoph Lenz and Lutz Nasdala
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1134
Hydrothermal chloritization processes from biotite in the Toki granite, Central Japan: Temporal variations of of the compositions of hydrothermal fluids associated with chloritization
Takashi Yuguchi, Eiji Sasao, Masayuki Ishibashi and Tadao Nishiyama
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Fayalite oxidation processes in Obsidian Cliffs rhyolite flow, Oregon
Audrey M. Martin, Etienne Médard, Bertrand Devouard, Lindsay P. Keller, Kevin Righter, Jean-Luc Devidal and Zia Rahman
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Effect of pores and grain size on the elastic and piezoelectric properties of quartz-based materials
Julie Aufort, Oktay Aktas, Michael A. Carpenter and Ekhard K.H. Salje
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A route for the direct crystallization of dolomite
Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco, Samuel Shaw and Liane G. Benning
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Very large differences in intramolecular D-H partitioning in hydrated silicate melts synthesized at upper mantle pressures and temperatures
Ying Wang, Samantha X. Cody, Dionysis Foustoukos, Bjorn O. Mysen and George D. Cody
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Temperature dependence of crystal structure of CaGeO3 high-pressure perovskite phase and experimental determination of its Debye temperatures studied by low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Shoichi Kuribayashi, Noriaki Nakayama, Hiroshi Fukui, Hiroshi Arima, Akira Yoneda and Akira Yoshiasa
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Insights into the structure of mixed CO2/CH4 in gas hydrates
S. Michelle Everett, Claudia J. Rawn, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, David J. Keffer, Ashfia Huq and Tommy J. Phelps
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Hydrous species in feldspars: A reassessment based on FTIR and SIMS
Jed L. Mosenfelder, George R. Rossman and Elizabeth A. Johnson
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An insight into the inverse transformation of realgar altered by light
Giovanni Pratesi and Matteo Zoppi
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First evidence of CaCO3-III and CaCO3-IIIb high-pressure polymorphs of calcite: Authigenically formed in near surface sediments
Maike Schaebitz, Richard Wirth, Christoph Janssen and Georg Dresen
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Surface transformations of platinum grains from Fifield, New South Wales, Australia
S. Gordon Campbell, Frank Reith, Barbara Etschmann, Joël Brugger, Gema Martinez-Criado, Robert A. Gordon and Gordon Southam
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Cation exchange capacity and water content of opal in sedimentary basins: Example from the Monterey Formation, California
Arkadiusz Derkowski, Jan Środoń and Douglas K. McCarty
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SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
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Impact of preparation method and chemical composition on physicochemical and photocatalytic properties of nano-dimensional magnetite-type materials
Zara P. Cherkezova-Zheleva, Katerina L. Zaharieva, Martin P. Tsvetkov, Vilma S. Petkova, Maria M. Milanova and Ivan G. Mitov
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: OLIVINE
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Transition metal cation site preferences in forsterite (Mg2SiO4) determined from paramagnetically shifted NMR resonances
Ryan J. McCarty, Aaron C. Palke, Jonathan F. Stebbins and J. Stephen Hartman
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REVIEW
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Routine characterization and interpretation of complex alkali feldspar intergrowths
Ian Parsons, John D. Fitz Gerald and Martin R. Lee
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PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
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Presentation of the 2014 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Bernard J. Wood
Jon Blundy
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Acceptance of the 2014 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
Bernard J. Wood
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Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2015 to Marc Hirschmann
Mark S. Ghiorso
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Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2015
Marc M. Hirschmann
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Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2014 to Fang-Zhen Teng
William F. McDonough
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Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2014
Fang-Zhen Teng
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NEW MINERALS
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New Mineral Names
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