Amorphous Materials: Properties, Structure, and Durability:

Grant S. Henderson and Daniel R. Neuville

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Preface to the amorphous materials special section
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1485. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Sandro Jahn

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Atomic structure and transport properties of MgO-Al₂O₃ melts: A molecular dynamics simulation study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1486-1492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Jan A. Schuessler, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Harald Behrens, Valeria Misiti, and Carmela Freda

Amorphous Materials: Properties, structure, and Durability: Oxidation state of iron in hydrous phono-tephritic melts
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1493-1504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Wim J. Malfait, Valentina P. Zakaznova-Herzog, and Werner E. Halter

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Quantitative Raman spectroscopy: Speciation of Na-silicate glasses and melts
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1505-1518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Articles:

Daniela Rubatto, Othmar Müntener, Auke Barnhoorn, and Courtney Gregory

Dissolution-reprecipitation of zircon at low-temperature, high-pressure conditions (Lanzo Massif, Italy)
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1519-1529. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Paola Comodi, Sabrina Nazzareni, Pier Francesco Zanazzi, and Sergio Speziale

High-pressure behavior of gypsum: A single-crystal X-ray study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1530-1537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Giancarlo Della Ventura, Fabio Bellatreccia, and Massimo Piccinini

Presence and zoning of hydrous components in leucite from the Alban Hills volcano, Rome, Italy
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1538-1544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

George E. Harlow and Frank C. Hawthorne

Herderite from Mogok, Myanmar, and comparison with hydroxyl-herderite from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Germany
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1545-1549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Sylvia-Monique Thomas, Rainer Thomas, Paul Davidson, Patrick Reichart, Monika Koch-Müller, and Günther Dollinger

Application of Raman spectroscopy to quantify trace water concentrations in glasses and garnets
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1550-1557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Asami Sano-Furukawa, Kazuki Komatsu, Carine B. Vanpeteghem, and Eiji Ohtani

Neutron diffraction study of -AlOOD at high pressure and its implication for symmetrization of the hydrogen bond
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1558-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Guy L. Hovis, Joanna R. Morabito, Amy Spooner, Andrew Mott, Erik L. Person, C. Michael B. Henderson, Jacques Roux, and Daniel Harlov

A simple predictive model for the thermal expansion of AlSi₃ feldspars
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1568-1573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrei Y. Barkov, Robert F. Martin, Lang Shi, and Mark N. Feinglos

New data on PGE alloy minerals from a very old collection (probably 1890s), California
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1574-1580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Michael E. Fleet, and Arslan Akhmetov

High-pressure study on lead fluorapatite
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1581-1584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

E. Makovicky and L. Arnskov Olsen

High-pressure Al-rich hexagonal phases—What are their kin?
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1585-1587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

G. Diego Gatta, Nicola Rotiroti, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, and Alessandro Pavese

Leucite at high pressure: Elastic behavior, phase stability, and petrological implications
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1588-1596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Guy L. Hovis and Jacques Roux

Thermodynamic mixing properties of Rb-K feldspars
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1597-1602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Francesco Demartin, Carlo Maria Gramaccioli, Italo Campostrini, and Paolo Orlandi

Demicheleite, BiSBr, a new mineral from La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1603-1607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

W. Sekkal, N. Taleb, A. Zaoui, and I Shahrour

A lattice dynamical study of the aragonite and post-aragonite phases of calcium carbonate rock
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1608-1612. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jürgen Gose, Patrick Reichart, Günther Dollinger, and Esther Schmädicke

Water in natural olivine—determined by proton-proton scattering analysis
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1613-1619. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Joy M. Branlund and Anne M. Hofmeister

Factors affecting heat transfer in natural SiO₂ solids
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1620-1629. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nathan I. Chutas, Victor C. Kress, Mark S. Ghiorso, and Richard O. Sack

A solution model for high-temperature PbS-AgSbS₂-AgBiS₂ galena
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1630-1640. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dale Carroll and William R. Richmond

Incorporation of molybdate anion into β-FeOOH
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1641-1646. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ferdinando Bosi

Disordering of Fe²⁺ over octahedrally coordinated sites of tourmaline
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1647-1653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Justin Hustoft, Sang-Heon Shim, Atsushi Kubo, and Norimasa Nishiyama

Raman spectroscopy of CaIrO₃ postperovskite up to 30 GPa
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1654-1658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mario Tribaudino, Marco Bruno, Gianluca Iezzi, Giancarlo Della Ventura, and Irene Margiolaki

The thermal behavior of richterite
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1659-1665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Natalie V. Pervukhina, Stanislav V. Borisov, Svetlana A. Magarill, Dmitrii Yu. Naumov, and Vladimir I. Vasil’ev

The crystal structure of kelyanite, (Hg₂)₆(SbO₆)BrCl₂
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1666-1669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Kazuko Saruwatari, Noriaki Ozaki, Hiromichi Nagasawa, and Toshihiro Kogure

Comparison of crystallographic orientations between living (Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica) and fossil (Watznaueria barnesiae) coccoliths using electron microscopes
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1670-1677. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters:

Kei Hirose, Naoto Takafuji, Kiyoshi Fujino, Sean R. Shieh, and Thomas S. Duffy

Iron partitioning between perovskite and post-perovskite: A transmission electron microscope study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1678-1681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shugo Ohi, Akira Miyake, Norimasa Shimobayashi, Masatomo Yashima, and Masao Kitamura

An isosymmetric phase transition of orthopyroxene found by high-temperature X-ray diffraction
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1682-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

New Mineral Names:

Paula C. Piilonen, Glenn Poirier, and Kimberly T. Tait

New Mineral Names
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1686-1691. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Gavin L. Foster

PALEOALTIMETRY: GEOCHEMICAL AND THERMODYNAMIC APPROACHES: editor Matthew J. Kohn. (2007) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 66, 278 p., Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. ISBN: 978-0-939950-78-2.
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1692. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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