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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 101, no. 5        May 2016 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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The elastic tensor of monoclinic alkali feldspars
Naëmi Waeselmann, J. Michael Brown, Ross J. Angel, Nancy Ross, Jing Zhao, and Werner Kaminsky
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Ca neighbors from XANES spectroscopy: A tool to investigate structure, redox, and nucleation processes in silicate glasses, melts, and crystals
Maria Rita Cicconi, Dominique de Ligny, Tamires M. Gallo, and Daniel R. Neuville
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Coupled substitution of Fe3+ and H+ for Si in wadsleyite: A study by polarized infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopies and single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Takaaki Kawazoe, Alok Chaudhari, Joseph R. Smyth, and Catherine McCammon
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
1021
(FeH)1–xTixO2: A new water carrier to the mantle transition zone
Tatsuhiko Kawamoto
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1023
Dissecting a volcano
Corliss Kin I Sio
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1025
W-WO joins the deep Earth electrochemical series
Abby Kavner
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
1027
Time’s arrow in the trees of life and minerals
Peter J. Heaney
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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
1036
A century of mineral structures: How well do we know them?
Ross Angel and Fabrizio Nestola
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BUILDING PLANETS: THE DYNAMICS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CORE FORMATION
1046
Equation of state of pyrite to 80 GPa and 2400 K
Elizabeth C. Thompson, Bethany A. Chidester, Rebecca A. Fischer, Gregory I. Myers, Dion L. Heinz, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Andrew J. Campbell
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CRUSTAL MAGMAS
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Understanding magmatic processes at Telica volcano, Nicaragua: Crystal size distribution and textural analysis
Molly Witter, Tanya Furman, Peter LaFemina, and Maureen Feineman
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
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Non-hydrothermal origin of apatite in SEDEX mineralization and host rocks of the Howard’s Pass district, Yukon, Canada
Michael G. Gadd, Daniel Layton-Matthews, and Jan M. Peter
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REGULAR ARTICLE
1072
Petrographic investigation of smithing slag of the Hellenistic to Byzantine city of Sagalassos (SW-Turkey)
Kim Eekelers, Patrick Degryse, and Philippe Muchez
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1084
Equation of state and spin crossover of (Mg,Fe)O at high pressure, with implications for explaining topographic relief at the core-mantle boundary
Natalia V. Solomatova, Jennifer M. Jackson, Wolfgang Sturhahn, June K. Wicks, Jiyong Zhao, Thomas S. Toellner, Bora Kalkan, and William M. Steinhardt
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“Satellite monazites” in polymetamorphic basement rocks of the Alps: Their origin and petrological significance
Fritz Finger, Erwin Krenn, Bernhard Schulz, Daniel Harlov, and David Schiller
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Solution-chemistry control of Mg2+-calcite interaction mechanisms: Implication for biomineralization
Jie Xu, Jianhua Wang, Mina Hong, and H. Henry Teng
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1113
Probing carbon-bearing species and CO2 inclusions in amorphous carbon-MgSiO3 enstatite reaction products at 1.5 GPa: Insights from 13C high-resolution solid-state NMR
Eun Jeong Kim, Yingwei Fei, and Sung Keun Lee
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Thermochemistry of rare earth perovskites Na3xRE0.67–xTiO3 (RE = La, Ce)
Dawei Feng, Pardha Saradhi Maram, Aleksandra Mielewczyk-Gryń, and Alexandra Navrotsky
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Thermodynamics of bastnaesite: A major rare earth ore mineral
Radha Shivaramaiah, Andre Anderko, Richard E. Riman, and Alexandra Navrotsky
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A single-crystal X-ray and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrothermally synthesized arsenates and vanadates with the descloizite and adelite structure types
Tamara Đorđević, Uwe Kolitsch, and Lutz Nasadala
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Compressional and shear wave velocities for polycrystalline bcc-Fe up to 6.3 GPa and 800 K
Yuki Shibazaki, Keisuke Nishida, Yuji Higo, Mako Igarashi, Masaki Tahara, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Hidenori Terasaki, Yuta Shimoyama, Soma Kuwabara, Yusaku Takubo, and Eiji Ohtani
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1161
Majindeite, Mg2Mo3O8, a new mineral from the Allende meteorite and a witness to post-crystallization oxidation of a Ca-Al-rich refractory inclusion
Chi Ma and John R. Beckett
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Use of multivariate analysis for synchrotron micro-XANES analysis of iron valence state in amphiboles
M. Darby Dyar, Elly A. Breves, Mickey E. Gunter, Antonio Lanzirotti, Jonathan M. Tucker, C.J. Carey, Samantha E. Peel, Elizabeth B. Brown, Roberta Oberti, Mirna Lerotic, and Jeremy S. Delaney
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Elasticity and phase transformation at high pressure in coesite from experiments and first-principles calculations
Ting Chen, Xuebing Wang, Xintong Qi, Maining Ma, Zhishuang Xu, and Baosheng Li
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Thermodynamics of mixing in an isostructural solid solution: Simulation methodologies and application to the rutile-cassiterite system
Xin Liu, Victor L. Vinograd, Xiancai Lu, Egor V. Leonenko, Nikolay N. Eremin, Rucheng Wang, and Björn Winkler
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Compressibility of 2M1 muscovite-paragonite series minerals: A computational study to 6 GPa
Noemí Hernández-Haro, Daniel Muñoz-Santiburcio, Carlos Pérez Del Valle, Joaquin Ortega-Castro, Claro I. Sainz-Díaz, Carlos J. Garrido, and Alfonso Hernández-Laguna
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Joegoldsteinite: A new sulfide mineral (MnCr2S4) from the Social Circle IVA iron meteorite
Junko Isa, Chi Ma, and Alan E. Rubin
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Oxygen isotope thermometry reveals high magmatic temperatures and short residence times in Yellowstone and other hot-dry rhyolites compared to cold-wet systems
Matthew W. Loewen and Ilya N. Bindeman
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
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