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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 101, no. 10        October 2016 Table of Contents

LETTERS
2347
Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite
William E. Glassley, John A. Korstgård, and Kai Sørensen
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2351
Chemical zoning and lattice distortion in uraninite from Olympic Dam, South Australia
Edeltraud Macmillan, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Kathy Ehrig, Nigel J. Cook, and Allan Pring
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INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE
2133
Temporal histories of Cordilleran continental arcs: Testing models for magmatic episodicity
Moritz Kirsch, Scott R. Paterson, Florian Wobbe, Ana María Martínez Ardila, Benjamin L. Clausen, and Pablo H. Alasino
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CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
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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SPECIAL COLLECTION: FROM MAGMAS TO ORE DEPOSITS
2168
Association of cumulus apatite with compositionally unusual olivine and plagioclase in the Taihe Fe-Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion: Petrogenetic significance and implications for ore genesis
Zhong-Jie Bai, Hong Zhong, Chusi Li, Wei-Guang Zhu, and Wen-Jun Hu
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CRUSTAL MAGMAS
2176
Repeated, multiscale, magmatic erosion and recycling in an upper-crustal pluton: Implications for magma chamber dynamics and magma volume estimates
Scott Paterson, Valbone Memeti, Roland Mundil, and Jiří Žák
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FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
2199
A new experimental approach to study fluid–rock equilibria at the slab-mantle interface based on the synthetic fluid inclusion technique
Alexandra Tsay, Zoltan Zajacz, Peter Ulmer, Markus Waelle, and Carmen Sanchez-Valle
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
2210
Fe-Mg interdiffusion in orthopyroxene
Ralf Dohmen, Jan H. Ter Heege, Hans-Werner Becker, and Sumit Chakraborty
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: RATES AND DEPTHS OF MAGMA ASCENT ON EARTH
2222
Error sources in single-clinopyroxene thermobarometry and a mantle geotherm for the Novinka kimberlite, Yakutia
Luca Ziberna, Paolo Nimis, Dmitry Kuzmin, and Vladimir G. Malkovets
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
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Experimental hydration of natural volcanic clinopyroxene phenocrysts under hydrothermal pressures (0.5–3 kbar)
Franz A. Weis, Roland Stalder, and Henrik Skogby
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REGULAR ARTICLE
2248
Comparison of isoelectric points of single-crystal and polycrystalline α-Al2O3 and α-Fe2O3 surfaces
Yingge Wang, Per Persson, F. Marc Michel, and Gordon E. Brown, Jr.
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2260
Synthetic olivine capsules for use in experiments
William Nash, Duane Smythe, and Bernard J. Wood
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2264
Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE phosphate minerals
David J. Turner, Benoit Rivard, and Lee A. Groat
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2279
Protolith carbon isotope ratios in cordierite from metamorphic and igneous rocks
William H. Peck
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2288
Empirical electronic polarizabilities of ions for the prediction and interpretation of refractive indices: Oxides and oxysalts
Robert D. Shannon and Reinhard X. Fischer
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2301
A novel protocol for resolving feldspar crystals in synchrotron X-ray microtomographic images of crystallized natural magmas and synthetic analogs
Fabio Arzilli, Margherita Polacci, Patrizia Landi, Daniele Giordano, Don R. Baker, and Lucia Mancini
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2312
Silicic lunar volcanism: Testing the crustal melting model
Amber L. Gullikson, Justin J. Hagerty, Mary R. Reid, Jennifer F. Rapp, and David S. Draper
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2322
Transition metals in the transition zone: Crystal chemistry of minor element substitution in wadsleyite
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, Julien Allaz, Takaaki Kawazoe, Steven D. Jacobsen, and Zhenmin Jin
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2331
Experimental evidence of the formation of intermediate phases during transition of kaolinite into metakaolinite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Boris A. Sakharov, and Bella B. Zviagina
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
2355
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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BOOK REVIEW
2361
BOOK REVIEW
Michael W. Foerster
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2363
BOOK REVIEW
James A. Saunders
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