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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 103, no. 8        August 2018 Table of Contents

LETTER
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POLARIO, a computer program for calculating refractive indices from chemical compositions
Reinhard X. Fischer, Manfred Burianek, and Robert D. Shannon
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
1173
Electron channeling to achieve the full potential of mineralogy
Nobuyoshi Miyajima
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
1176
The inverse problem of unpolarized infrared spectroscopy of geological materials: Estimation from noisy random sampling of a quadratic form
Andrew Jackson, Robert L. Parker, Malcolm Sambridge, Catherine Constable, and Aaron S. Wolf
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PLANETARY PROCESSES AS REVEALED BY SULFIDES AND CHALCOPHILE ELEMENTS
1185
The distribution of lead and thallium in mantle rocks: Insights from the Balmuccia peridotite massif (Italian Alps)
Zaicong Wang, Marina Lazarov, Lena K. Steinmann, Harry Becker, Zongqi Zou, and Xianlei Geng
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Sulfide partial melting and chalcopyrite disease: An experimental study
Boddepalli Govindarao, Kamal Lochan Pruseth, and Biswajit Mishra
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: APPLICATIONS OF FLUID, MINERAL, AND MELT INCLUSIONS
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Nanoscale partitioning of Ru, Ir, and Pt in base-metal sulfides from the Caridad chromite deposit, Cuba
José M. González-Jiménez, Artur Deditius, Fernando Gervilla, Martin Reich, Alexandra Suvorova, Malcolm P. Roberts, Josep Roqué, and Joaquín A. Proenza
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE
1221
Stability of Al-bearing superhydrous phase B at the mantle transition zone and the uppermost lower mantle
Sho Kakizawa, Toru Inoue, Hideto Nakano, Minami Kuroda, Naoya Sakamoto, and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: FROM MAGMAS TO ORE DEPOSITS
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Origin of the fluorine- and beryllium-rich rhyolites of the Spor Mountain Formation, Western Utah
Shane R. Dailey, Eric H Christiansen, Michael J. Dorais, Bart J. Kowallis, Diego P. Fernandez, and Douglas M. Johnson
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REGULAR ARTICLE
1253
The mantle source of thermal plumes: Trace and minor elements in olivine and major oxides of primitive liquids (and why the olivine compositions don’t matter)
Keith Putirka, Yan Tao, K.R. Hari, Michael R. Perfit, Matthew G. Jackson, and Ricardo Arevalo Jr.
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The effects of ferromagnetism and interstitial hydrogen on the equation of states of hcp and dhcp FeHx: Implications for the Earth’s inner core age
Hitoshi Gomi, Yingwei Fei, and Takashi Yoshino
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Accurate predictions of microscale oxygen barometry in basaltic glasses using V K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy: A multivariate approach
Antonio Lanzirotti, M. Darby Dyar, Stephen Sutton, Matthew Newville, Elisabet Headad, CJ Carey, Molly McCanta, Lopaka Lee, Penelope L. King, and John Jones
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Electrical cell assembly for reproducible conductivity experiments in the multi-anvil
Anne Pommier and Kurt D. Leinenweber
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A vibrational spectroscopic study of kernite to 25 GPa: Implications for the high-pressure stability of borate polyhedra
Marcus Silva, Earl F. O’Bannon III, and Quentin Williams
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Discreditation of bobdownsite and the establishment of criteria for the identification of minerals with essential monofluorophosphate (PO3F2–)
Francis M. McCubbin, Brian L. Phillips, Christopher T. Adcock, Kimberly T. Tait, Andrew Steele, John S. Vaughn, Marc D. Fries, Viorel Atudorei, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, and Elisabeth M. Hausrath
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Adrianite, Ca12(Al4Mg3Si7)O32Cl6, a new Cl-rich silicate mineral from the Allende meteorite: An alteration phase in a Ca-Al-rich inclusion
Chi Ma and Alexander N. Krot
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MSA Distinguished Lecturer Series
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An accessory mineral and experimental perspective on the evolution of the early crust
Dustin Trail
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BOOK REVIEW
1349
BOOK REVIEW
Jonathan D. Price
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ERRATUM
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ERRATUM
Michael Schindler
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