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Preface: Petrologic Mineralogy—the study of minerals in context: A memorial in honor of Charles V. Guidotti

¹ Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A.
² Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, U.S.A.
³ Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, U.S.A.
⁴ Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, C.so Garibaldi, 37-35137, Padova, Italy

Correspondence: ^* E-mail: mdyar@mtholyoke.edu

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This special issue of the American Mineralogist honors the memory and life’s work of our friend, colleague, mentor, and consummate teacher of mineralogy and petrology, Charles V. Guidotti (1935–2005). These papers were largely derived from a special topical session held in his honor at the 2006 Annual Meetings of the Geological Society of America. The session provided an opportunity for mineralogists and petrologists inspired by Charlie’s example and teaching to present their latest research. Topics presented both orally and in posters included the crystal chemistry of a variety of minerals, chemical composition of metamorphic and igneous rocks, origin of unusual metasedimentary rock bulk compositions and their relation to the minerals composing them, responses of mineral assemblages and compositions to variations in intensive variables such as pressure, temperature, and activities of fluid components, and behavior of minerals and rocks during deformation. In this special issue, we present 17 papers that reflect some of the breadth presented at that meeting, but represent only a part of Charlie’s interests across the spectrum of field geology, mineralogy, and metamorphic petrology.

Charlie was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, but spent his . . . [Full Text of this Article]