Petrologic Mineralogy Special Section:

M. Darby Dyar, Edward S. Grew, Darrell J. Henry, and Francesco P. Sassi

Preface: Petrologic Mineralogy—the study of minerals in context: A memorial in honor of Charles V. Guidotti
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 261-262. [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Robert F. Martin, Caterina De Vito, and Federico Pezzotta

Why is amazonitic K-feldspar an earmark of NYF-type granitic pegmatites? Clues from hybrid pegmatites in Madagascar
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 263-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David P. West, Jr., Martin G. Yates, Christopher Gerbi, and Nellie Q. Barnard

Metamorphosed Ordovician Fe- and Mn-rich rocks in south-central Maine: From peri-Gondwanan deposition through Acadian metamorphism
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 270-282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Edward S. Grew, Heribert A. Graetsch, Birgit Pöter, Martin G. Yates, Ian Buick, Heinz-Jürgen Bernhardt, Werner Schreyer, Günter Werding, Christopher J. Carson, and Geoffrey L. Clarke

Boralsilite, Al₁₆B₆Si₂O₃₇, and "boron-mullite:" Compositional variations and associated phases in experiment and nature
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 283-299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Barbara L. Dutrow, C.T. Foster, Jr., and Jennifer Whittington

Prograde muscovite-rich pseudomorphs as indicators of conditions during metamorphism: An example from NW Maine
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 300-314. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pavel Pitra, Philippe Boulvais, Vladimir Antonoff, and Hervé Diot

Wagnerite in a cordierite-gedrite gneiss: Witness of long-term fluid-rock interaction in the continental crust (Ile d’Yeu, Armorican Massif, France)
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 315-326. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bernardo Cesare, Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar, Giuseppe Cruciani, Shabeer Pocker, and Luca Nodari

Mineral chemistry of Ti-rich biotite from pegmatite and metapelitic granulites of the Kerala Khondalite Belt (southeast India): Petrology and further insight into titanium substitutions
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 327-338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Raffaele Sassi, Giuseppe Cruciani, Claudio Mazzoli, Luca Nodari, and John Craven

Multiple titanium substitutions in biotites from high-grade metapelitic xenoliths (Euganean Hills, Italy): Complete crystal chemistry and appraisal of petrologic control
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 339-350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Hiromi Konishi, Peter R. Buseck, Huifang Xu, and Xiaochun Li

Proto-polymorphs of jimthompsonite and chesterite in contact-metamorphosed serpentinites from Japan
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 351-359. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Charles A. Geiger

Silicate garnet: A micro to macroscopic (re)view
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 360-372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Aaron B. Kelts, Minghua Ren, and Elizabeth Y. Anthony

Monazite occurrence, chemistry, and chronology in the granitoid rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: An electron microprobe study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 373-383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Willis E. Hames, John T. Cheney, and Robert J. Tracy

Single-crystal ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age variation in muscovite of the Gassetts Schist and associated gneiss, Vermont Appalachians
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 384-395. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

M.F. Brigatti, C.V. Guidotti, D. Malferrari, and F.P. Sassi

Single-crystal X-ray studies of trioctahedral micas coexisting with dioctahedral micas in metamorphic sequences from western Maine
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 396-408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Christine M. Clark, Eva R. Wadoski, and Emily D. Freeman

Tourmaline chemistry and the ^IIIB site
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 409-413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Giannantonio Cibin, Gianfelice Cinque, Augusto Marcelli, Annibale Mottana, and Raffaele Sassi

The octahedral sheet of metamorphic 2M₁-phengites: A combined EMPA and AXANES study
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 414-425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Silvia Matarrese, Emanuela Schingaro, Fernando Scordari, Francesco Stoppa, Gianluigi Rosatelli, Giuseppe Pedrazzi, and Luisa Ottolini

Crystal chemistry of phlogopite from Vulture-S. Michele Subsynthem volcanic rocks (Mt. Vulture, Italy) and volcanological implications
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 426-437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jennifer A. Thomson

Beneath the Stillwater Complex: Petrology and geochemistry of quartz-plagioclase-cordierite (or garnet)-orthopyroxene-biotite ± spinel hornfels, Mountain View area, Montana
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 438-450. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nadia Curetti, Giovanni Ferraris, and Gabriella Ivaldi

Correlation between crystallization pressure and structural parameters of phengites
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 451-455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Articles:

Milen Kadiyski, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Nikolay N. Pertsev, Aleksander E. Zadov, Irina O. Galuskina, Roman Wrzalik, Piotr Dzierzanowski, and Evgeny V. Kislov

The modular structure of dovyrenite, Ca₆Zr[Si₂O₇]₂(OH)₄: Alternate stacking of tobermorite and rosenbuschite-like units
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 456-462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Damien Faivre, Nicolas Menguy, Mihály Pósfai, and Dirk Schüler

Environmental parameters affect the physical properties of fast-growing magnetosomes
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 463-469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sarah P. Slotznick and Sang-Heon Shim

In situ Raman spectroscopy measurements of MgAl₂O₄ spinel up to 1400 °C
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 470-476. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jun Tsuchiya, Taku Tsuchiya, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Vibrational properties of -AlOOH under pressure
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 477-482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

V.G. de Resende, G.M. da Costa, E . De Grave, and A. Van Alboom

Mössbauer spectroscopic study of synthetic leucophosphite, KFe₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 483-487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters:

Allan H. Treiman

Rhonite in Luna 24 pyroxenes: First find from the Moon, and implications for volatiles in planetary magmas
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 488-491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nagayoshi Sata, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Kei Hirose, Hisao Kobayashi, Yasuo Ohishi, and Naohisa Hirao

New high-pressure B2 phase of FeS above 180 GPa
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 492-494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Simona Quartieri, Federico Boscherini, Chiara Dalconi, Gianluca Iezzi, Carlo Meneghini, and Roberta Oberti

Magnesium K-edge EXAFS study of bond-length behavior in synthetic pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 495-498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Errata:

Erratum
American Mineralogist 2008 93: 499. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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