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American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 99, no. 7        July 2014 Table of Contents

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LETTERS

1507Te-rich raspite, Pb(W0.56Te0.44)O4, from Tombstone, Arizona, U.S.A.: The first natural example of Te6+ substitution for W6+
Marcelo B. Andrade, Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Robert A. Jenkins and Isabel Fay
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS

1193An alternative to alteration and melting processes in the Earth: Reaction between hydrogen (H2) and oxide components in the Earth in space and time
Bjorn Mysen
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1195The crystallographic and petrogenetic significance of pegmatite phosphates
Frédéric Hatert
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1197Small grains and big implications: Accessory Ti- and Zr-minerals as petrogenetic indicators in HP and UHP marbles
Peter Tropper
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MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL

1199Natural Fe-bearing oxides and sulfates from the Rio Tinto Mars analog site: Critical assessment of VNIR reflectance spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, and XRD as mineral identification tools
Pablo Sobron, Janice L. Bishop, David F. Blake, Bin Chen and Fernando Rull
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1206Dissolution rates of amorphous Al- and Fe-phosphates and their relevance to phosphate mobility on Mars
Valerie M. Tu, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Oliver Tschauner, Valentin Iota and Gerald W. Egeland
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1216Stability and spectroscopy of Mg sulfate minerals: Role of hydration on sulfur isotope partitioning
Ema Bobocioiu and Razvan Caracas
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1221Synthesis and characterization of the Mars-relevant phosphate minerals Fe- and Mg-whitlockite and merrillite and a possible mechanism that maintains charge balance during whitlockite to merrillite transformation
Christopher T. Adcock, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Paul M. Forster, Oliver Tschauner and Kirellos J. Sefein
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MINERALS IN THE HUMAN BODY

1233Determination of the concentration of asbestos minerals in highly contaminated mine tailings: An example from abandoned mine waste of Crètaz and Èmarese (Valle d’Aosta, Italy)
Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Simone Pollastri, Nicola Bursi Gandolfi, Francesco Ronchetti, Carlo Albonico, Alessandro Cavallo, Giovanna Zanetti, Paola Marini and Orietta Sala
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SPINELS RENAISSANCE—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

1248Pressure-volume equation of state for chromite and magnesiochromite: A single-crystal X-ray diffraction investigation
Fabrizio Nestola, Benedetta Periotto, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Enrico Bruschini and Ferdinando Bosi
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1254The systematics of the spinel-type minerals: An overview
Cristian Biagioni and Marco Pasero
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH’S MANTLE

1265Formation of SiH4 and H2O by the dissolution of quartz in H2 fluid under high pressure and temperature
Ayako Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Kagi, Naoki Noguchi, Hisako Hirai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Taku Okada, Satoshi Nakano and Takehiko Yagi
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1270Identifying the spin transition in Fe2+-rich MgSiO3 perovskite from X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy
Razvan Caracas, Haruka Ozawa, Kei Hirose, Hirofumi Ishii, Nozomu Hiraoka, Yasuo Ohishi and Naohisa Hirao
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1277Mantle-derived guyanaite in a Cr-omphacitite xenolith from Moses Rock diatreme, Utah
Daniel J. Schulze, Roberta L. Flemming, Patrick H.M. Shepherd and Herwart Helmstaedt
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ARTICLES

1284Pluton assembly and the genesis of granitic magmas: Insights from the GIC pluton in cross section, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California
Keith D. Putirka, Joe Canchola, Jeffrey Rash, Oscar Smith, Gerardo Torrez, Scott R. Paterson and Mihai N. Ducea
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1304First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of MgSiO3 glass: Structure, density, and elasticity at high pressure
Dipta B. Ghosh, Bijaya B. Karki and Lars Stixrude
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1315A new UHP metamorphic complex in the ~1.8 Ga Nagssugtoqidian Orogen of West Greenland
William E. Glassley, John A. Korstgård, Kai Sørensen and Steen W. Platou
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1335Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE fluorocarbonates
David J. Turner, Benoit Rivard and Lee A. Groat
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1347Volatile abundances of coexisting merrillite and apatite in the martian meteorite Shergotty: Implications for merrillite in hydrous magmas
Francis M. McCubbin, Charles K. Shearer, Paul V. Burger, Erik H. Hauri, Jianhua Wang, Stephen M. Elardo and James J. Papike
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1355Sb5+ and Sb3+ substitution in segnitite: A new sink for As and Sb in the environment and implications for acid mine drainage
Stuart J. Mills, Barbara Etschmann, Anthony R. Kampf, Glenn Poirier and Matthew Newville
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1360First-principles elasticity of monocarboaluminate hydrates
Juhyuk Moon, Seyoon Yoon, Renata M. Wentzcovitch and Paulo J.M. Monteiro
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1369Substitution of Ti3+ and Ti4+ in hibonite (CaAl12O19)
Patricia M. Doyle, Paul F. Schofield, Andrew J. Berry, Andrew M. Walker and Kevin S. Knight
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1383Exploring the effect of lithium on pegmatitic textures: An experimental study
Victoria Maneta and Don R. Baker
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1404XANES measurements of Cr valence in olivine and their applications to planetary basalts
Aaron S. Bell, Paul V. Burger, Loan Le, Charles K. Shearer, James J. Papike, Steve R. Sutton, Matthew Newville and John Jones
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1413Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study on “d” superstructure in sedimentary dolomite
Zhizhang Shen, Hiromi Konishi, Izabela Szlufarska, Philip E. Brown and Huifang Xu
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1420Influence of temperature, pressure, and chemical composition on the electrical conductivity of granite
Lidong Dai, Haiying Hu, Heping Li, Jianjun Jiang and Keshi Hui
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1429Ti- and Zr-minerals in calcite-dolomite marbles from the ultrahigh-pressure Kimi Complex, Rhodope mountains, Greece: Implications for the P-T evolution based on reaction textures, petrogenetic grids, and geothermobarometry
Alexander Proyer, Ioannis Baziotis, Evripidis Mposkos and Dieter Rhede
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1449Ab initio thermodynamic and thermophysical properties of sapphirine end-members in the join Mg4Al8Si2O20-Mg3Al10SiO20
Donato Belmonte, Giulio Ottonello and Marino Vetuschi Zuccolini
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1462The relation between Li ↔ Na substitution and hydrogen bonding in five-periodic single-chain silicates nambulite and marsturite: A single-crystal X-ray study
Mariko Nagashima, Thomas Armbruster, Uwe Kolitsch and Thomas Pettke
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1471Natural analogs of belite sulfoaluminate cement clinkers from Negev Desert, Israel
Ella V. Sokol, Svetlana N. Kokh, Yevgeny Vapnik, Vincent Thiéry and Sophia A. Korzhova
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1488Australian sedimentary opal-A and its associated minerals: Implications for natural silica sphere formation
Moritz Liesegang and Ralf Milke
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1500The 2H and 3R polytypes of sabieite, NH4Fe3+(SO4)2, from a natural fire in an oil-bearing shale near Milan, Ohio
Anthony R. Kampf, R. Peter Richards and Barbara P. Nash
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1511NEW MINERAL NAMES
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1519BOOK REVIEW
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