Presidential Address:

Robert M. Hazen

Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America, Salt Lake City, October 18, 2005: Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1715-1729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Articles:

Jennifer A. Thomson

A rare garnet-tourmaline-sillimanite-biotite-ilmenite-quartz assemblage from the granulite-facies region of south-central Massachusetts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1730-1738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lutz Nasdala, Andreas Kronz, John M. Hanchar, Marion Tichomirowa, Donald W. Davis, and Wolfgang Hofmeister

Effects of natural radiation damage on back-scattered electron images of single crystals of minerals
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1739-1746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Maik Pertermann and Anne M. Hofmeister

Thermal diffusivity of olivine-group minerals at high temperature
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1747-1760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Frances N. Skomurski, Rodney C. Ewing, Andrew L. Rohl, Julian D. Gale, and Udo Becker

Quantum mechanical vs. empirical potential modeling of uranium dioxide (UO₂) surfaces: (111), (110), and (100)
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1761-1772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Berry, Alistair C. Hack, John A. Mavrogenes, Matthew Newville, and Stephen R. Sutton

A XANES study of Cu speciation in high-temperature brines using synthetic fluid inclusions
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1773-1782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kim N. Dalby and Penelope L. King

A new approach to determine and quantify structural units in silicate glasses using micro-reflectance Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1783-1793. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Henrik Skogby, Ulf Hålenius, Per Kristiansson, and Haruo Ohashi

Titanium incorporation and ^VITi³⁺ -^IVTi⁴⁺ charge transfer in synthetic diopside
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1794-1801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Toshimori Sekine, Hongliang He, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Akira Yamaguchi

Hugoniot and impact-induced phase transition of magnesite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1802-1806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pamela C. Burnley and Christian Schmidt

Finite element modeling of elastic volume changes in fluid inclusions: Comparison with experiment
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1807-1814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Victor L. Vinograd and Marcel H.F. Sluiter

Thermodynamics of mixing in pyrope-grossular, Mg₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂-Ca₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂, solid solution from lattice dynamics calculations and Monte Carlo simulations
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1815-1830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

István Dódony, Mihály Pósfai, and Peter R. Buseck

Does antigorite really contain 4- and 8-membered rings of tetrahedra?
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1831-1838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and A. Loose

New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1839-1846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Andreas Ertl, John M. Hughes, Stefan Prowatke, Thomas Ludwig, Pinnelli S.R. Prasad, Franz Brandstätter, Wilfried Körner, Ralf Schuster, Franz Pertlik, and Horst Marschall

Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared spectroscopic studies
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1847-1856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Oliver Tschauner, Sheng-Nian Luo, Paul D. Asimow, and Thomas J. Ahrens

Recovery of stishovite-structure at ambient conditions out of shock-generated amorphous silica
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1857-1862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Alessandro Fabbrizio, Paul J. Rouse, and Michael R. Carroll

New experimental data on biotite + magnetite + sanidine saturated phonolitic melts and application to the estimation of magmatic water fugacity
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1863-1870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P.F. Zanazzi, M. Montagnoli, S. Nazzareni, and P. Comodi

Structural effects of pressure on triclinic chlorite: A single-crystal study
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1871-1878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Taku Tsuchiya and Jun Tsuchiya

New high-pressure phase relations in CaSnO₃
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1879-1887. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bouchaib Manoun, Robert T. Downs, and Surendra K. Saxena

A high-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of hafnon, HfSiO₄
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1888-1892. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fuming Jiang, Sergio Speziale, and Thomas S. Duffy

Single-crystal elasticity of brucite, Mg(OH)₂, to 15 GPa by Brillouin scattering
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1893-1900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Berry, Hugh St.C. O’Neill, Dean R. Scott, Garry J. Foran, and J.M.G. Shelley

The effect of composition on Cr²⁺/Cr³⁺ in silicate melts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1901-1908. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Anthony R. Kampf, Ian M. Steele, and Robert A. Jenkins

Phosphohedyphane, Ca₂Pb₃(PO₄)₃Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1909-1917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dmitri O. Charkin and Philip Lightfoot

Synthesis of novel lead–molybdenum and lead–tungsten oxyhalides with the pinalite structure, Pb₃MoO₅Cl₂ and Pb₃WO₅Br₂
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1918-1921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Xianyu Xue and Masami Kanzaki

Depolymerization effect of water in aluminosilicate glasses: Direct evidence from ¹H-²⁷Al heteronuclear correlation NMR
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1922-1926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bogdan P. Onac, Herta Effenberger, Karl Ettinger, and Simona Cinta Panzaru

Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1927-1931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, and Javier A. Ellena

Matioliite, the Mg-analog of burangaite, from Gentil mine, Mendes Pimentel, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and other occurrences
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1932-1936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Letters:

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

Crystallographic alignments in a coccolith (Pleurochrysis carterae) revealed by electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD)
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1937-1940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shigeaki Ono and Takumi Kikegawa

High-pressure study of FeS, between 20 and 120 GPa, using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1941-1944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

New Mineral Names:

Andrew J. Locock, T. Scott Ercit, Johan Kjellman, and Paula C. Piilonen

New mineral names
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1945-1954. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

Florie Caporuscio

GEMMOLOGY (third edition): by Peter G. Read. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2005) 324 pp., 272 figures, 27 tables, 11 color plates, U.S. $39.95 Softbound.
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1955-1956. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Erratum
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1956. [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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