Review Paper:

Robert M. Hazen, Dominic Papineau, Wouter Bleeker, Robert T. Downs, John M. Ferry, Timothy J. McCoy, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, and Hexiong Yang

Mineral evolution
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1693-1720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [This article is in the news!][Another news link]  

Amorphous Materials: Properties, Structure, and Durability:

Daniel R. Neuville, Laurent Cormier, Valérie Montouillout, Pierre Florian, Francis Millot, Jean-Claude Rifflet, and Dominique Massiot

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Structure of Mg- and Mg/Ca aluminosilicate glasses: ²⁷Al NMR and Raman spectroscopy investigations
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1721-1731. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Matthieu Micoulaut

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Constrained interactions, rigidity, adaptative networks, and their role for the description of silicates
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1732-1748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Mathieu Roskosz, Michael J. Toplis, Daniel R. Neuville, and Bjorn O. Mysen

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Quantification of the kinetics of iron oxidation in silicate melts using Raman spectroscopy and assessment of the role of oxygen diffusion
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1749-1759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Bjorn O. Mysen, Shigeru Yamashita, and Nadezda Chertkova

Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Solubility and solution mechanisms of NOH volatiles in silicate melts at high pressure and temperature—amine groups and hydrogen fugacity
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1760-1770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Link to Special Section List]  

Articles:

W.G. Ernst and J.G. Liou

High- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Past results and future prospects
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1771-1786. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

E. Makovicky, V. Petrícek, M. Dusek, and D. Topa

Crystal structure of a synthetic tin-selenium representative of the cylindrite structure type
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1787-1798. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daniel Vielzeuf, Joaquim Garrabou, Alain Baronnet, Olivier Grauby, and Christian Marschal

Nano to macroscale biomineral architecture of red coral (Corallium rubrum)
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1799-1815. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jonathan M. Castro, Pierre Beck, Hugh Tuffen, Alexander R.L. Nichols, Donald B. Dingwell, and Michael C. Martin

Timescales of spherulite crystallization in obsidian inferred from water concentration profiles
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1816-1822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Steven D. Jacobsen, Christopher M. Holl, Kimberly A. Adams, Rebecca A. Fischer, Emily S. Martin, Craig R. Bina, Jung-Fu Lin, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Atsushi Kubo, and Przemyslaw Dera

Compression of single-crystal magnesium oxide to 118 GPa and a ruby pressure gauge for helium pressure media
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1823-1828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, Richard M. Thompson, and Günther J. Redhammer

In situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray study of aegirine, NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆, and the role of M1 size in clinopyroxene compressibility
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1829-1837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Etienne Médard, Catherine A. McCammon, Jay A. Barr, and Timothy L. Grove

Oxygen fugacity, temperature reproducibility, and H₂O contents of nominally anhydrous piston-cylinder experiments using graphite capsules
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1838-1844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zeng Lü, Lifei Zhang, Jinxue Du, and Kurt Bucher

Coesite inclusions in garnet from eclogitic rocks in western Tianshan, northwest China: Convincing proof of UHP metamorphism
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1845-1850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mariko Nagashima, Nouri-Said Rahmoun, Evgeny V. Alekseev, Charles A. Geiger, Thomas Armbruster, and Masahide Akasaka

Crystal chemistry of macfallite: Relationships to sursassite and pumpellyite
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1851-1857. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christina M. Smeaton, Christopher G. Weisener, Peter C. Burns, Brian J. Fryer, and David A. Fowle

Bacterially enhanced dissolution of meta-autunite
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1858-1864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Eloïse Gaillou, Emmanuel Fritsch, Bertha Aguilar-Reyes, Benjamin Rondeau, Jeffrey Post, Alain Barreau, and Mikhail Ostroumov

Common gem opal: An investigation of micro- to nano-structure
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1865-1873. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

T. Yamanaka, A. Uchida, and Y. Nakamoto

Structural transition of post-spinel phases CaMn₂O₄, CaFe₂O₄, and CaTi₂O₄ under high pressures up to 80 GPa
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1874-1881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A.E. Gleason, R. Jeanloz, and M. Kunz

Pressure-temperature stability studies of FeOOH using X-ray diffraction
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1882-1885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Christina Calvin and Malcolm Rutherford

The parental melt of lherzolitic shergottite ALH 77005: A study of rehomogenized melt inclusions
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1886-1898. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ryosuke Sinmyo, Haruka Ozawa, Kei Hirose, Akira Yasuhara, Noriaki Endo, Nagayoshi Sata, and Yasuo Ohishi

Ferric iron content in (Mg,Fe)SiO₃ perovskite and post-perovskite at deep lower mantle conditions
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1899-1902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Evgeny V. Galuskin, Viktor M. Gazeev, Thomas Armbruster, Aleksander E. Zadov, Irina O. Galuskina, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Piotr Dzierzanowski, Milen Kadiyski, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, Roman Wrzalik, and Antoni Winiarski

Lakargiite CaZrO₃: A new mineral of the perovskite group from the North Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1903-1910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pascal V. Grundler, Joël Brugger, Nicolas Meisser, Stefan Ansermet, Stacey Borg, Barbara Etschmann, Denis Testemale, and Trudy Bolin

Xocolatlite, Ca₂Mn₂⁴⁺Te₂O₁₂·H₂O, a new tellurate related to kuranakhite: Description and measurement of Te oxidation state by XANES spectroscopy
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1911-1920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P.F. Zanazzi, F. Nestola, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

Pyroxmangite: A high-pressure single-crystal study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1921-1928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Letters:

Timothy B. Fischer, Peter J. Heaney, Je-Hun Jang, Daniel E. Ross, Susan L. Brantley, Jeffrey E. Post, and Ming Tien

Continuous time-resolved X-ray diffraction of the biocatalyzed reduction of Mn oxide
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1929-1932. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hugues Leroux, Damien Jacob, Julien Stodolna, Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, and Michael E. Zolensky

Igneous Ca-rich pyroxene in comet 81P/Wild 2
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1933-1936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

C.K. Shearer, P.V. Burger, C.R. Neal, Z. Sharp, L.E. Borg, L. Spivak-Birndorf, M. Wadhwa, J.J. Papike, J.M. Karner, A.M. Gaffney, J. Shafer, B.P. Weiss, J. Geissman, and V.A. Fernandes

A unique glimpse into asteroidal melting processes in the early solar system from the Graves Nunatak 06128/06129 achondrites
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1937-1940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

New Mineral Names:

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

New Mineral Names
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1941-1946. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

George Helffrich

POST-PEROVSKITE: THE LAST MANTLE PHASE TRANSITION.: K. Hirose, J. Brodholt, T. Lay, D. Yuen, Eds. (2007) American Geophyscial Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, 174. 350 pages, hardbound. ISBN 13: 978-0-87590-439-9. $104.00 (AGU Member Price: $72.80).
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1947-1948. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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