Planetary Materials: From the Earth to the Moon and Beyond:

Charles Shearer, David Vaniman, and Ted Labotka

Preface to the Jim Papike special issue
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1459-1460. [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephen E. Haggerty and Agnes Fung

Orbicular oxides in carbonatitic kimberlites
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1461-1472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Peter I. Nabelek, Theodore C. Labotka, Thomas Helms, and Max Wilke

Fluid-mediated polymetamorphism related to Proterozoic collision of Archean Wyoming and Superior provinces in the Black Hills, South Dakota
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1473-1487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Fang-Zhen Teng, William F. McDonough, Roberta L. Rudnick, Richard J. Walker, and Mona-Liza C. Sirbescu

Lithium isotopic systematics of granites and pegmatites from the Black Hills, South Dakota
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1488-1498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Justin J. Hagerty, Charles K. Shearer, David T. Vaniman, and Paul V. Burger

Identifying the effects of petrologic processes in a closed basaltic system using trace-element concentrations in olivines and glasses: Implications for comparative planetology
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1499-1508. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Glenn J. MacPherson, Mario J. Giaramita, and Stephen Paul Phipps

Tectonic implications of diverse igneous blocks in Franciscan mélange, Northern California and southwestern Oregon
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1509-1520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clive R. Neal and Georgiana Y. Kramer

The petrogenesis of the Apollo 14 high-Al mare basalts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1521-1535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Rachel E. Dwarzski, David S. Draper, Charles K. Shearer, and Carl B. Agee

Experimental insights on crystal chemistry of high-Ti garnets from garnet-melt partitioning of rare-earth and high-field-strength elements
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1536-1546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John M. Hughes, Bradley L. Jolliff, and Mickey E. Gunter

The atomic arrangement of merrillite from the Fra Mauro Formation, Apollo 14 lunar mission: The first structure of merrillite from the Moon
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1547-1552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

J. Chaklader, C.K. Shearer, and L.E. Borg

The behavior of Li and B in lunar mare basalts during crystallization, shock, and thermal metamorphism: Implications for volatile element contents of martian basalts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1553-1564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

C.K. Shearer, J.J. Papike, and J.M. Karner

Pyroxene europium valence oxybarometer: Effects of pyroxene composition, melt composition, and crystallization kinetics
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1565-1573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jim Karner, J.J. Papike, and C.K. Shearer

Comparative planetary mineralogy: Pyroxene major- and minor-element chemistry and partitioning of vanadium between pyroxene and melt in planetary basalts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1574-1582. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Bradley L. Jolliff, John M. Hughes, John J. Freeman, and Ryan A. Zeigler

Crystal chemistry of lunar merrillite and comparison to other meteoritic and planetary suites of whitlockite and merrillite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1583-1595. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Gary E. Lofgren, Gary R. Huss, and G.J. Wasserburg

An experimental study of trace-element partitioning between Ti-Al-clinopyroxene and melt: Equilibrium and kinetic effects including sector zoning
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1596-1606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Craig S. Schwandt and Gordon A. McKay

Minor- and trace-element sector zoning in synthetic enstatite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1607-1615. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christopher D.K. Herd

Insights into the redox history of the NWA 1068/1110 martian basalt from mineral equilibria and vanadium oxybarometry
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1616-1627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

David T. Vaniman and Steve J. Chipera

Transformations of Mg- and Ca-sulfate hydrates in Mars regolith
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1628-1642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

K. Righter, S.R. Sutton, M. Newville, L. Le, C.S Schwandt, H. Uchida, B. Lavina, and R.T. Downs

An experimental study of the oxidation state of vanadium in spinel and basaltic melt with implications for the origin of planetary basalt
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1643-1656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

C.K. Shearer, G. McKay, J.J. Papike, and J.M. Karner

Valence state partitioning of vanadium between olivine-liquid: Estimates of the oxygen fugacity of Y980459 and application to other olivine-phyric martian basalts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1657-1663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Rhian H. Jones and E. Rae Carey

Identification of relict forsterite grains in forsterite-rich chondrules from the Mokoia CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1664-1674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Steven B. Simon, Lawrence Grossman, Ian D. Hutcheon, Douglas L. Phinney, Peter K. Weber, and Stewart J. Fallon

Formation of spinel-, hibonite-rich inclusions found in CM2 carbonaceous chondrites
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1675-1687. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Frans J.M. Rietmeijer, Joseph A. Nuth, Pierre Rochette, Jannie Marfaing, Aurora Pun, and James M. Karner

Deep metastable eutectic condensation in Al-Fe-SiO-H₂-O₂ vapors: Implications for natural Fe-aluminosilicates
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1688-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Articles:

Jing Chen and Zhendong Fu

-PbO₂-type nanophase of TiO₂ from coesite-bearing eclogite in the Dabie Mountains, China—Comment
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1699-1700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Xiuling Wu, Dawei Meng, and Yujing Han

-PbO₂-type nanophase of TiO₂ from coesite-bearing eclogite in the Dabie Mountains, China—Reply
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1701-1702. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters:

C. David Martin, Wilson A. Crichton, Haozhe Liu, Vitali Prakapenka, Jiuhua Chen, and John B. Parise

Rietveld structure refinement of perovskite and post-perovskite phases of NaMgF₃ (Neighborite) at high pressures
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1703-1706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M.D. Welch, A.R. Pawley, S.E. Ashbrook, H.E. Mason, and B.L. Phillips

Si vacancies in the 10-Å phase
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1707-1710. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Presentation of the Dana Medal 2006:

Alexandra Navrotsky

Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Dana Medal for 2006 to Rodney C. Ewing
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1711. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rodney C. Ewing

Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2006
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1712-1713. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Melissa Fittipaldo

ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN GEOLOGY (2nd ed.): by S.J.B. Reed, Cambridge University Press, August 2005. 206 pages, $70.00
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1714. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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