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American Mineralogist: International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials Research

Published Papers: CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
Volume 102, 2017
321
Ab initio calculations of uranium and thorium storage in CaSiO3-perovskite in the Earth’s lower mantle
Samuel N. Perry, Jeffrey S. Pigott, and Wendy R. Panero
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312
SiC-dominated ultra-reduced mineral assemblage in carbonatitic xenoliths from the Dalihu basalt, Inner Mongolia, China
Detao He, Yongsheng Liu, Changgui Gao, Chunfei Chen, Zhaochu Hu, and Shan Gao
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Volume 101, 2016
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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2638
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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2155
Graphite-diamond relations in mantle rocks: Evidence from an eclogitic xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite (Siberian Craton)
Denis S. Mikhailenko, Andrey V. Korsakov, Pavel S. Zelenovskiy, and Alexander V. Golovin
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1560
Incorporation of Fe2+ and Fe3+ in bridgmanite during magma ocean crystallization
Asmaa Boujibar, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Denis Andrault, M. Ali Bouhifd, and Nicolas Trcera
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277
Some thermodynamic properties of larnite (β-Ca2SiO4) constrained by high T/P experiment and/or theoretical simulation
Zhihua Xiong, Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Sicheng Wang, Linlin Chang, Junjie Tang, Xinguo Hong, Zhigang Zhang, and Hejing Wang
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71
Ca-Al-silicate inclusions in natural moissanite (SiC)
Simonpietro Di Pierro and Edwin Gnos
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Volume 100, 2015
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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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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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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1084
Quantification of water in majoritic garnet
Sylvia-Monique Thomas, Kathryn Wilson, Monika Koch-Müller, Erik H. Hauri, Catherine McCammon, Steven D. Jacobsen, John Lazarz, Dieter Rhede, Minghua Ren, Neal Blair, and Stephan Lenz
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1076
Influence of hydration on 23Na, 27Al, and 29Si MAS-NMR spectra of sodium saponites and sodium micas
Jesus Sanz, Isabel Sobrados and Jean-Louis Robert
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1065
Calculation of the energetics of water incorporation in majorite garnet
Jeffrey S. Pigott, Kate Wright, Julian D. Gale and Wendy R. Panero
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1059
Optical properties of siderite (FeCO3) across the spin transition: Crossover to iron-rich carbonates in the lower mantle
Sergey S. Lobanov, Alexander F. Goncharov and Konstantin D. Litasov
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1053
First-principles prediction of pressure-enhanced defect segregation and migration at MgO grain boundaries
Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh and Ashok K. Verma
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378
In situ observation of the pyroxene-majorite transition in Na2MgSi5O12 using synchrotron radiation and Raman spectroscopy of Na-majorite
Anna Dymshits, Igor Sharygin, Konstantin Litasov, Anton Shatskiy, Pavel Gavryushkin, Eiji Ohtani, Akio Suzuki and Kenichi Funakoshi
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59
High-pressure high-temperature transitions in MgCr2O4 and crystal structures of new Mg2Cr2O5 and post-spinel MgCr2O4 phases with implications for ultrahigh-pressure chromitites in ophiolites
Takayuki Ishii, Hiroshi Kojitani, Kiyoshi Fujino, Hitoshi Yusa, Daisuke Mori, Yoshiyuki Inaguma, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Kazunari Yamaura and Masaki Akaogi
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Volume 99, 2014
1562
Hexagonal Na0.41[Na0.125Mg0.79Al0.085]2[Al0.79Si0.21]6O12 (NAL phase): Crystal structure refinement and elasticity
Martha G. Pamato, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Dmytro M. Trots, Razvan Caracas and Daniel J. Frost
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1555
The spin state of iron in Fe3+-bearing Mg-perovskite and its crystal chemistry at high pressure
Izumi Mashino, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Takaya Mitsui, Ryo Masuda, Makoto Seto, Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi and Satoshi Nakano
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1544
Experimental determination of melting in the systems enstatite-magnesite and magnesite-calcite from 15 to 80 GPa
Andrew R. Thomson, Michael J. Walter, Oliver T. Lord and Simon C. Kohn
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1537
Evidence for multiple diamondite-forming events in the mantle
Sami Mikhail, Daniel Howell and Francis M. McCubbin
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1277
Mantle-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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1270
Identifying 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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1265
Formation 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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