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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 103, no. 9        September 2018 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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Making tissintite: Mimicking meteorites in the multi-anvil
Melinda J. Rucks, Matthew L. Whitaker, Timothy D. Glotch, John B. Parise, Steven J. Jaret, Tristan Catalano, and M. Darby Dyar
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
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The tales of disequilibrium and equilibrium crystallization of rare metal minerals: Data from new experiments
Aleksandr S. Stepanov
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE
1354
Pressure, temperature, water content, and oxygen fugacity dependence of the Mg grain-boundary diffusion coefficient in forsterite
Hongzhan Fei, Sanae Koizumi, Naoya Sakamoto, Minako Hashiguchi, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Katharina Marquardt, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, and Tomoo Katsura
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: ISOTOPES, MINERALS, AND PETROLOGY: HONORING JOHN VALLEY
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Questioning the biogenicity of Neoproterozoic superheavy pyrite by SIMS
Huan Cui, Kouki Kitajima, Michael J. Spicuzza, John H. Fournelle, Adam Denny, Akizumi Ishida, Feifei Zhang, and John W. Valley
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: FROM MAGMAS TO ORE DEPOSITS
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The effect of disequilibrium crystallization on Nb-Ta fractionation in pegmatites: Constraints from crystallization experiments of tantalite-tapiolite
Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Francois Holtz, and Frank Melcher
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Titanite major and trace element compositions as petrogenetic and metallogenic indicators of Mo ore deposits: Examples from four granite plutons in the southern Yidun arc, SW China
Li-Chuan Pan, Rui-Zhong Hu, Xian-Wu Bi, Chusi Li, Xin-Song Wang, and Jing-Jing Zhu
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: DYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES
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Kuliginite, a new hydroxychloride mineral from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia: Implications for low-temperature hydrothermal alteration of the kimberlites
Denis S. Mikhailenko, Andrey V. Korsakov, Sergey V. Rashchenko, Yurii V. Seryotkin, Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy, and Alexander V. Golovin
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REGULAR ARTICLE
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Electron microprobe technique for the determination of iron oxidation state in silicate glasses
Chao Zhang, Renat R. Almeev, Ery C. Hughes, Alexander A. Borisov, Eric P. Wolff, Heidi E. Höfer, Roman E. Botcharnikov, and Jürgen Koepke
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Experimental investigation of F and Cl partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 0 GPa and 950–1050 °C: Evidence for steric controls on apatite-melt exchange equilibria in OH-poor apatite
Francis M. McCubbin and Gokce Ustunisik
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Carbonic acid monohydrate
Evan H. Abramson, Olivier Bollengier, J. Michael Brown, Baptiste Journaux, Werner Kaminsky, and Anna Pakhomova
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High spatial resolution analysis of the iron oxidation state in silicate glasses using the electron probe
Ery C. Hughes, Ben Buse, Stuart L. Kearns, Jon D. Blundy, Geoff Kilgour, Heidy M. Mader, Richard A. Brooker, Robert Balzer, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Danilo Di Genova, Renat R. Almeev, and Jenny M. Rikeker
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Disturbance of the Sm-Nd isotopic system by metasomatic alteration: A case study of fluorapatite from the Sin Quyen Cu-LREE-Au deposit, Vietnam
Xiao-Chun Li, Mei-Fu Zhou, Yue-Heng Yang, Xin-Fu Zhao, and Jian-Feng Gao
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Segerstromite, Ca3(As5+O4)2[As3+(OH)3]2, the first mineral containing As3+(OH)3, the arsenite molecule, from the Cobriza mine in the Atacama Region, Chile
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Robert A. Jenkins, and Stanley H. Evans
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Vestaite, (Ti4+Fe2+)Ti34+O9, a new mineral in the shocked eucrite Northwest Africa 8003
Run-Lian Pang, Dennis Harries, Kilian Pollok, Ai-Cheng Zhang, and Falko Langenhorst
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Decomposition boundary from high-pressure clinoenstatite to wadsleyite + stishovite in MgSiO3
Shigeaki Ono, Takumi Kikegawa, and Yuji Higo
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BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW
Giuliani Gaston
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