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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 100, no. 8-9        August-September 2015 Table of Contents

LETTERS
2001
The crystal structures of Mg2Fe2C4O13, with tetrahedrally coordinated carbon, and Fe13O19, synthesized at deep mantle conditions
Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland, Ashkan Salamat, Sylvain Petitgirard and Harald Müller
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EDITORIAL
1657
Data, ideas, and the nature of scientific progress
Keith Putirka
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OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
1659
Beyond the equilibrium paradigm: How consideration of kinetics enhances metamorphic interpretation
William D. Carlson, David R.M. Pattison and Mark J. Caddick
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THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS
1668
Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs
Francis M. McCubbin, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Romain Tartèse, Rachel L. Klima, Yang Liu, James Mortimer, Jessica J. Barnes, Charles K. Shearer, Allan H. Treiman, David J. Lawrence, Stephen M. Elardo, Dana M. Hurley, Jeremy W. Boyce and Mahesh Anand
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1708
The mafic component of the lunar crust: Constraints on the crustal abundance of mantle and intrusive rock, and the mineralogy of lunar anorthosites
Sarah T. Crites, Paul G. Lucey, and G. Jeffrey Taylor
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1717
Degassing pathways of Cl-, F-, H-, and S-bearing magmas near the lunar surface: Implications for the composition and Cl isotopic values of lunar apatite
Gokce Ustunisik, Hanna Nekvasil, Donald H. Lindsley and Francis M. McCubbin
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ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1728
Uranium scavenging during mineral replacement reactions
Kan Li, Allan Pring, Barbara Etschmann, Edeltraud Macmillan, Yung Ngothai, Brian O’Neill, Anthony Hooker, Fred Mosselmans and Joël Brugger
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SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
1736
New structure of high-pressure body-centered orthorhombic Fe2SiO4
Takamitsu Yamanaka, Atsushi Kyono, Yuki Nakamoto, Svetlana Kharlamova, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Stephen A. Gramsch, Ho-kwang Mao and Russell J. Hemley
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1744
Spectroscopic study of ordering in non-stoichiometric magnesium aluminate spinel
Vitaly Erukhimovitch, Yuval Mordekoviz and Shmuel Hayun
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1752
High-pressure behavior of cuprospinel CuFe2O4: Influence of the Jahn-Teller effect on the spinel structure
Atsushi Kyono, Stephen A. Gramsch, Yuki Nakamoto, Masafumi Sakata, Masato Kato, Tomoya Tamura and Takamitsu Yamanaka
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CRUSTAL MAGMAS
1762
Field and model constraints on silicic melt segregation by compaction/hindered settling: The role of water and its effect on latent heat release
Cin-Ty A. Lee, Douglas M. Morton, Michael J. Farner and Pranabendu Moitra
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1778
Formation of rhyolite at the Okataina Volcanic Complex, New Zealand: New insights from analysis of quartz clusters in plutonic lithics
Karina A. Graeter, Rachel J. Beane, Chad D. Deering, Darren Gravley and Olivier Bachmann
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
1790
Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 1.0–1.2 GPa and 950–1000 °C
Francis M. McCubbin, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Romain Tartèse, Jeremy W. Boyce, Sami Mikhail, Eric S. Whitson, Aaron S. Bell, Mahesh Anand, Ian A. Franchi, Jianhua Wang and Erik H. Hauri
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REGULAR ARTICLE
1803
Synthesis, characterization, and thermodynamics of arsenates forming in the Ca-Fe(III)-As(V)-NO3 system: Implications for the stability of Ca-Fe arsenates
Dogan Paktunc, Juraj Majzlan, Artis Huang, Yves Thibault, Michel B. Johnson and Mary Anne White
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1821
High-pressure phases of cordierite from single-crystal X-ray diffraction to 15 GPa
Gregory J. Finkelstein, Przemyslaw K. Dera and Thomas S. Duffy
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1834
Planar microstructures in zircon from paleo-seismic zones
Elizaveta Kovaleva, Urs Klötzli, Gerlinde Habler and John Wheeler
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1848
Ultra-deep subduction of Yematan eclogite in the North Qaidam UHP belt, NW China: Evidence from phengite exsolution in omphacite
Lei Han, Lifei Zhang and Guibin Zhang
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1856
Elastic wave velocity anomalies of anorthite in a subducting plate: In situ experiments
Kyoko N. Matsukage, Yu Nishihara, Fumiya Noritake, Katsuyuki Kawamura, Noriyoshi Tsujino, Moe Sakurai, Yuji Higo, Junichi Nakajima, Akira Hasegawa and Eiichi Takahashi
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1866
Current limitations of molecular dynamic simulations as probes of thermo-physical behavior of silicate melts
Jean-Philippe Harvey and Paul D. Asimow
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1883
Three-component mixed-layer illite/smectite/kaolinite (I/S/K) minerals in hydromorphic soils, south China
Hanlie Hong, Feng Cheng, Ke Yin, Gordon Jock Churchman and Chaowen Wang
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1892
Melting curve of NaCl to 20 GPa from electrical measurements of capacitive current
Zeyu Li and Jie Li
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1899
Grain size measurement from two-dimensional micro-X-ray diffraction: Laboratory application of a radial integration technique
Michael S. Bramble, Roberta L. Flemming and Phil J.A. McCausland
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1912
Decrease of hydrogen incorporation in forsterite from CO2-H2O-rich kimberlitic liquid
Virginie Baptiste, Sylvie Demouchy, Shantanu Keshav, Fleurice Parat, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Pierre Condamine and Patrick Cordier
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1921
Provenance determination of sapphires and rubies using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and multivariate analysis
Kristen A. Kochelek, Nancy J. McMillan, Catherine E. McManus and David L. Daniel
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1932
Structural insights and elasticity of single-crystal antigorite from high-pressure Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy measured in the (010) plane
Hauke Marquardt, Sergio Speziale, Monika Koch-Müller, Katharina Marquardt and Gian Carlo Capitani
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1940
Magnetic anisotropy in natural amphibole crystals
Andrea R. Biedermann, Christian Bender Koch, Thomas Pettke and Ann M. Hirt
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1952
Resolving oxygen isotopic disturbance in zircon: A case study from the low δ18O Scourie dikes, NW Scotland
Joshua H.F.L. Davies, Richard A. Stern, Larry M. Heaman, Xavier Rojas and Erin L.Walton
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1967
Accurate determination of Fe3+/ΣFe of andesitic glass by Mössbauer spectroscopy
Hongluo L. Zhang, Peat A. Solheid, Rebecca A. Lange, Anette von der Handt and Marc M. Hirschmann
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
1978
Recoil-free fractions of iron in aluminous bridgmanite from temperature-dependent Mössbauer spectra
Jiachao Liu, Bjorn Mysen, Yingwei Fei and Jie Li
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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
1985
Chemical interactions between a sedimentary diapir and surrounding magma: Evidence from the Phepane Dome and Bushveld Complex, South Africa
Rachel H.P. Ireland and Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland
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NEW MINERALS
2005
New Mineral Names
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BOOK REVIEW
2014
Geodynamics, Third edition
Nicholas Teanby
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