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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 100, no. 10        October 2015 Table of Contents

LETTERS
2336
Synthesis of large wadsleyite single crystals by solid-state recrystallization
Takaaki Kawazoe, Johannes Buchen and Hauke Marquardt
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2340
Decagonite, Al71Ni24Fe5, a quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Christopher L. Andronicos, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, Glenn J. MacPherson, William M. Steinhardt, Marina Yudovskaya and Paul J. Steinhardt
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2344
Earth’s “missing” minerals
Robert M. Hazen, Grethe Hystad, Robert T. Downs, Joshua J. Golden, Alex J. Pires and Edward S. Grew
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2348
Magnetite-rutile symplectite derived from ilmenite-hematite solid solution in the Xinjie Fe-Ti oxide-bearing, mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion (SW China)
Wei Tan, Christina Yan Wang, Hongping He, Changming Xing, Xiaoliang Liang and Huan Dong
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
2017
Reaching new boundaries for in-situ U-Th geochronology
J.P. Bernal
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OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
2018
Normal to inverse transition in martian spinel: Understanding the interplay between chromium, vanadium, and iron valence state partitioning through a crystal-chemical lens
James J. Papike, Paul V. Burger, Aaron S. Bell, Charles K. Shearer, Loan Le and John Jones
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: OLIVINE
2026
Accuracy of timescales retrieved from diffusion modeling in olivine: A 3D perspective
Thomas Shea, Fidel Costa, Daniel Krimer and Julia Eve Hammer
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2043
Phosphoran olivine overgrowths: Implications for multiple impacts to the Main Group pallasite parent body
Neva A. Fowler-Gerace and Kimberly T. Tait
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2053
Diffusion of phosphorus in olivine and molten basalt
E. Bruce Watson, D.J. Cherniak and M.E. Holycross
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MANTLE PLUMES: SOURCES, DYNAMICS, AND VOLCANIC EXPRESSION
2066
Oceanic lavas sampling the high-3He/4He mantle reservoir: Primitive, depleted, or re-enriched?
Gordana Garapić, Ananya Mallik, Rajdeep Dasgupta and Matthew G. Jackson
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: RATES AND DEPTHS OF MAGMA ASCENT ON EARTH
2082
U-Th baddeleyite geochronology and its significance to date the emplacement of silica undersaturated magmas
Wan N. Wu, Axel K. Schmitt and Lucia Pappalardo
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: NANOMINERALS AND MINERAL NANOPARTICLES
2091
Polycrystallinity of green rust minerals and their synthetic analogs: Implications for particle formation and reactivity in complex systems
Carol A. Johnson, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kirsten Küsel and Michael F. Hochella Jr.
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INVESTIGATING PETROLOGIC INDICATORS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES IN VOLCANIC ROCKS
2106
Fe pre-enrichment: A new method to counteract iron loss in experiments on basaltic melts
Yann-Aurelien Brugier, Marina Alletti and Michel Pichavant
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
2112
Fe-Mg diffusion in spinel: New experimental data and a point defect model
Katharina Vogt, Ralf Dohmen and Sumit Chakraborty
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REGULAR ARTICLE
2123
Age, petrochemistry, and origin of a REE-rich mineralization in the Longs Peak-St. Vrain batholith, near Jamestown, Colorado (U.S.A.)
Julien Allaz, Markus B. Raschke, Philip M. Persson and Charles R. Stern
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2141
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) as a tool for in situ mapping and textural interpretation of lithium in pegmatite minerals
Marcus T. Sweetapple and Steven Tassios
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2152
Evidence for Nb2+ and Ta3+ in silicate melts under highly reducing conditions: A XANES study
Camille Cartier, Tahar Hammouda, Maud Boyet, Olivier Mathon, Denis Testemale and Bertrand N. Moine
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2159
Elastic softening of leucite and the lack of polar domain boundaries
Oktay Aktas, Michael A. Carpenter and Ekhard K.H. Salje
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2163
New thermobarometers for martian igneous rocks, and some implications for secular cooling on Mars
Jerrod Lessel and Keith Putirka
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2172
An updated calibration of the plagioclase-liquid hygrometer-thermometer applicable to basalts through rhyolites
Laura E. Waters and Rebecca A. Lange
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2185
Water effects on the anharmonic properties of forsterite
Yan Yang, Zhongping Wang, Joseph R. Smyth, Jia Liu and Qunke Xia
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2191
Synthesis and structure of a stuffed derivative of α-quartz, Mg0.5AlSiO4
Hongwu Xu, Peter J. Heaney, Ping Yu and Huifang Xu
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2199
Equation of state and elasticity of the 3.65 Å phase: Implications for the X-discontinuity
Mainak Mookherjee, Sergio Speziale, Hauke Marquardt, Sandro Jahn, Bernd Wunder, Monika Koch-Müller and Hanns-Peter Liermann
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2209
Ca-Zn solid solutions in C2/c pyroxenes: Synthesis, crystal structure, and implications for Zn geochemistry
Claudia Gori, Mario Tribaudino, Luciana Mantovani, Davide Delmonte, Francesco Mezzadri, Edmondo Gilioli and Gianluca Calestani
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2219
Aluminum environments in synthetic Ca-Tschermak clinopyroxene (CaAlAlSiO6) from Rietveld refinement, 27Al NMR, and first-principles calculations
Roberta L. Flemming, Victor V. Terskikh and Eric Ye
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2231
Trioctahedral Fe-rich micas: Relationships between magnetic behavior and crystal chemistry
Maria Franca Brigatti, Marco Affronte, Chiara Elmi, Daniele Malferrari and Angela Laurora
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2242
High-pressure compressibility and phase stability of Mn-dolomite (kutnohorite)
Sarah E.M. Palaich, Robert A. Heffern, Anke Watenphul, Jason Knight and Abby Kavner
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2246
Composition dependence of spin transition in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 bridgmanite
Susannah M. Dorfman, James Badro, Jean-Pascal Rueff, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao and Philippe Gillet
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2254
Oriented multiphase needles in garnet from ultrahigh-temperature granulites, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Jennifer A. Axler and Jay J. Ague
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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
2272
Solubility and solution mechanisms of chlorine and fluorine in aluminosilicate melts at high pressure and high temperature
Celia Dalou, Charles Le Losq, Bjorn O. Mysen and George D. Cody
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: GLASSES, MELTS, AND FLUIDS, AS TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING VOLCANIC PROCESSES AND HAZARDS
2284
Volatiles in magmas related to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption: Experiments vs. natural findings
Sara Fanara, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Danilo M. Palladino, Franziska Adams, Julia Buddensieck, Andreas Mulch and Harald Behrens
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2298
Aluminosilicate melts and glasses at 1 to 3 GPa: Temperature and pressure effects on recovered structural and density changes
Saurav Bista, Jonathan F. Stebbins, William B. Hankins and Thomas W. Sisson
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2308
Role of volatiles (S, Cl, H2O) and silica activity on the crystallization of haüyne and nosean in phonolitic magmas (Eifel, Germany and Saghro, Morocco)
Céline Baudouin and Fleurice Parat
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
2323
P-V-T equation of state and high-pressure behavior of CaCO3 aragonite
Ying Li, Yongtao Zou, Ting Chen, Xuebing Wang, Xintong Qi, Haiyan Chen, Jianguo Du and Baosheng Li
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2330
A possible new Al-bearing hydrous Mg-silicate (23 Å phase) in the deep upper mantle
Nao Cai, Toru Inoue, Kiyoshi Fujino, Hiroaki Ohfuji and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
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NEW MINERALS
2352
New Mineral Names
Dmitriy Belakovskiy
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BOOK REVIEW
2363
Book Review: Arsenic: Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Microbiology, RIMG Volume 79.
Joan Thomas
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