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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 101, no. 11        November 2016 Table of Contents

HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
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Melts, mush, and more: Evidence for the state of intermediate-to-silicic arc magmatic systems
Erik W. Klemetti
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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
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Nucleation rates of spherulites in natural rhyolitic lava
James E. Gardner, Kenneth S. Befus, James M. Watkins, and Travis Clow
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Silicic magma reservoirs in the Earth’s crust
Olivier Bachmann and Christian Huber
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NEW ADVANCES IN SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMA GENESIS
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Petrogenesis of antecryst-bearing arc basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Insights into along-arc variations in magma-mush ponding depths, H2O contents, and surface heat flux
Georg F. Zellmer, Mattia Pistone, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Benjamin J. Andrews, Arturo Gómez-Tuena, Susanne M. Straub, and Elizabeth Cottrell
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
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Wayneburnhamite, Pb9Ca6(Si2O7)3(SiO4)3, an apatite polysome: The Mn-free analog of ganomalite from Crestmore, California
Anthony R. Kampf, Robert M. Housley, and George R. Rossman
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U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of apatite in mafic rocks: Evidence for a major magmatic event at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the Armorican Massif (France)
Anthony Pochon, Marc Poujol, Eric Gloaguen, Yannick Branquet, Florence Cagnard, Charles Gumiaux, and Denis Gapais
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Quantification of CO2 concentration in apatite
Kathryn Clark, Youxue Zhang, and Fabian U. Naab
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2452
Phosphate minerals in the H group of ordinary chondrites, and fluid activity recorded by apatite heterogeneity in the Zag H3-6 regolith breccia
Rhian H. Jones, Francis M. McCubbin, and Yunbin Guan
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In situ elemental and isotopic analysis of fluorapatite from the Taocun magnetite-apatite deposit, Eastern China: Constraints on fluid metasomatism
Li-Ping Zeng, Xin-Fu Zhao, Xiao-Chun Li, Hao Hu, and Christopher McFarlane
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: GEOLOGY AND GEOBIOLOGY OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
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Acido-thermotolerant fungi from Boiling Springs Lake, LVNP: Potential for lignocellulosic biofuels
Bryan Ervin and Gordon Wolfe
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REGULAR ARTICLE
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Solid solution along the synthetic LiAlSi2O6-LiFeSi2O6 (spodumene-ferri-spodumene) join: A general picture of solid solutions, bond lengths, lattice strains, steric effects, symmetries, and chemical compositions of Li clinopyroxenes
Gianluca Iezzi, Geoffrey D. Bromiley, Andrea Cavallo, Partha P. Das, Fotini Karavassili, Irene Margiolaki, Andrew A. Stewart, Mario Tribaudino, and Jonathan P. Wright
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Formation of hydrous stishovite from coesite in high-pressure hydrothermal environments
Kristina Spektor, Johanna Nylen, Renny Mathew, Mattias Edén, Emil Stoyanov, Alexandra Navrotsky, Kurt Leinenweber, and Ulrich Häussermann
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Raman characterization of synthetic magnesian calcites
Jonathan Perrin, Daniel Vielzeuf, Didier Laporte, Angèle Ricolleau, George R. Rossman, and Nicole Floquet
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Yangite, PbMnSi3O8·H2O, a new mineral species with double wollastonite silicate chains, from the Kombat mine, Namibia
Robert T. Downs, William W. Pinch, Richard M. Thompson, Stanley H. Evans, and Lauren Megaw
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Ideal wollastonite and the structural relationship between the pyroxenoids and pyroxenes
Richard M. Thompson, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs
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Influence of the octahedral cationic-site occupancies on the framework vibrations of Li-free tourmalines, with implications for estimating temperature and oxygen fugacity in host rocks
Anke Watenphul, Jochen Schlüter, Ferdinando Bosi, Henrik Skogby, Thomas Malcherek, and Boriana Mihailova
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In situ X-ray observation of 10 Å phase stability at high pressure
Sergey V. Rashchenko, Seiji Kamada, Naohisa Hirao, Konstantin D. Litasov, and Eiji Ohtani
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
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New Mineral Names
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BOOK REVIEW
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Book Review
Catherine Peters
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Book Review
David van Acken
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