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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 101, no. 12        December 2016 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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An improved clinopyroxene-based hygrometer for Etnean magmas and implications for eruption triggering mechanisms
Cristina Perinelli, Silvio Mollo, Mario Gaeta, Serena Pia De Cristofaro, Danilo M. Palladino, Pietro Armienti, Piergiorgio Scarlato, and Keith D. Putirka
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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
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Physical basis of trace element partitioning: A review
Shun-ichiro Karato
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
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A mineralogical view of apatitic biomaterials
Jill Dill Pasteris
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2611
Radionuclide removal by apatite
Mark J. Rigali, Patrick V. Brady, and Robert C. Moore
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2620
Hydrothermal mineral replacement reactions for an apatite-monazite assemblage in alkali-rich fluids at 300–600 °C and 100 MPa
Wladyslaw B. Betkowski, Daniel E. Harlov, and John F. Rakovan
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
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Raman spectroscopy of siderite at high pressure: Evidence for a sharp spin transition
Jan Müller, Sergio Speziale, Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Sandro Jahn, and Monika Koch-Müller
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2645
Electron diffraction determination of 11.5 Å and HySo structures: Candidate water carriers to the Upper Mantle
Mauro Gemmi, Marco Merlini, Lukáš Palatinus, Patrizia Fumagalli, and Michael Hanfland
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
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Influence of grain size, water, and deformation on dolomite reaction rim formation
Vanessa Helpa, Erik Rybacki, Luiz Fernando Grafuhla Morales, and Georg Dresen
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: NANOMINERALS AND MINERAL NANOPARTICLES
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Dissolution-reprecipitation and self-assembly of serpentine nanoparticles preceding chrysotile formation: Insights into the structure of proto-serpentine
Romain Lafay, Alejandro Fernandez-Martinez, German Montes-Hernandez, Anne Line Auzende, and Agnieszka Poulain
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REGULAR ARTICLE
2677
Submicrometer-scale spatial heterogeneity in silicate glasses using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy
Katherine D. Burgess, Rhonda M. Stroud, M. Darby Dyar, and Molly C. McCanta
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2689
Growth of hydrothermal baddeleyite and zircon in different stages of skarnization
Wen Winston Zhao, Mei-Fu Zhou, and Wei Terry Chen
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2701
Structural incorporation of W6+ into hematite and goethite: A combined study of natural and synthetic iron oxides developed from precursor ferrihydrite and the preservation of ancient fluid compositions in hematite
Stefan Kreissl, Ralph Bolanz, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Mihail Tarassov, and Gregor Markl
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Morphological and chemical evolution of corundum (ruby and sapphire): Crystal ontogeny reconstructed by EMPA, LA-ICP-MS, and Cr3+ Raman mapping
Elena S. Sorokina, Wolfgang Hofmeister, Tobias Häger, Regina Mertz-Kraus, Stephan Buhre, and John M. Saul
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2723
High-pressure compressibility and vibrational properties of (Ca,Mn)CO3
Jin Liu, Razvan Caracas, Dawei Fan, Ema Bobocioiu, Dongzhou Zhang, and Wendy L. Mao
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Transformation of pyrite to pyrrhotite in the presence of Au-Ag alloys at 500 °C
Galina Palyanova, Konstantin Kokh, and Yurii Seryotkin
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2738
An alternative method of calculating cleavage energy: The effect of compositional domains in micas
Maria Franca Brigatti, Chiara Elmi, Stephen Guggenheim, Daniele Malferrari, and Marco Poppi
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2747
The role of Fe content on the Fe-Mg exchange reaction in augite
Mara Murri, Lorenzo Scandolo, Anna Maria Fioretti, Fabrizio Nestola, Chiara Maria Domeneghetti, and Matteo Alvaro
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2751
Collapsing minerals: Crackling noise of sandstone and coal, and the predictability of mining accidents
Xiang Jiang, Deyi Jiang, Jie Chen, and Ekhard K.H. Salje
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2759
Magnetite exsolution in ilmenite from the Fe-Ti oxide gabbro in the Xinjie intrusion (SW China) and sources of unusually strong remnant magnetization
Wei Tan, Hongping He, Christina Yan Wang, Huan Dong, Xiaoliang Liang, and Jianxi Zhu
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Statistical petrology reveals a link between supercontinents cycle and mantle global climate
Jérôme Ganne, Xiaojun Feng, Patrice Rey, and Vincent De Andrade
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New Mineral Names
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New Mineral Names
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