American Mineralogist, 2005, V 90, N 2-3, Feb-March.


LETTERS

497 A method for controlling alkali-metal oxide activities in one-atmosphere experiments and its application to measuring the relative activity coefficients of NaO0.5 in silicate melts Hugh St. C. O'Neill 502 Very low solubility of rutile in H2O at high pressure and temperature, and its implications for Ti-mobility in subduction zones Peter Tropper and Craig E. Manning 506 Microscopic strain in synthetic pyrope-grossular solid solutions determined by synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction at 5 K: The relationship to enthalpy of mixing behavior Monica Dapiaggi, Charles A. Geiger, and Gilberto Artioli 510 Ferrous hydroxy carbonate is a stable transformation product of biogenic magnetite Ravi K. Kukkadapu, John M. Zachara, James K. Fredrickson, David W. Kennedy, Alice C. Dohnalkova, and David E. McCready
REVIEW ARTICLE

277 Comparative planetary mineralogy: Valence state partitioning of Cr, Fe, Ti, and V among crystallographic sites in olivine, pyroxene, and spinel from planetary basalts J.J. Papike, J.M. Karner, and C.K. Shearer
ARTICLES

291 The origin of orthopyroxene/biotite + plagioclase coronas from the Bolangir anorthosite complex (India), and implications for reconstructing P-T paths Sonika Prasad, A. Bhattacharya, M.M. Raith, and S. Bhadra 304 Dellaventuraite, NaNa2(MgMn3+2Ti4+Li)Si8O22O2, a new anhydrous amphibole from the Kajlidongri Manganese Mine, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India Kimberly T. Tait, Frank C. Hawthorne, Joel D. Grice, Luisa Ottolini, and V.K. Nayak 310 Successive zoning of Al and H in hydrothermal vein quartz Naoya Miyoshi, Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, and Kuniaki Makino 316 The Ti-saturation surface for low-to-medium pressure metapelitic biotites: Implications for geothermometry and Ti-substitution mechanisms Darrell J. Henry, Charles V. Guidotti, and Jennifer A. Thomson 329 Thermochemistry of hydrotalcite-like phases in the MgO-Al2O3-CO2-H2O system: A determination of enthalpy, entropy, and free energy Rama kumar Allada, Alexandra Navrotsky, and Juliana Boerio-Goates 336 Igneous thermometers and barometers based on plagioclase + liquid equilibria: Tests of some existing models and new calibrations Keith D. Putirka 347 Thermodynamic properties of the Tschermak solid solution in Fe-chlorite: Application to natural examples and possible role of oxidation Olivier Vidal, Teddy Parra, and Philippe Vieillard 359 Experimental data on the Tschermak substitution in Fe-chlorite Teddy Parra, Olivier Vidal, and Thomas Theye 371 Nanometer-sized, divalent-Mn, hydrous silicate domains in geothermal brine precipitates Alain Manceau and Darrell L. Gallup 382 Geometric crystal chemical models for structural analysis of micas and their stacking polytypes Patrick H.J. Mercier, R. James Evans, and Denis G. Rancourt 399 Fundamental difference between synthetic powder and natural or synthetic single-crystal 1M micas: Geometric homo-octahedral vs. geometric meso-octahedral sheets Patrick H.J. Mercier, Denis G. Rancourt, Jean-Louis Robert, Rob G. Berman, and Guenther J. Redhammer 411 The crystal structures of synthetic Fe2(SO4)3(H2O)5 and the type specimen of lausenite Juraj Majzlan, Cristian Botez, and Peter W. Stephens 417 Experimental study of plagioclase rim growth around anorthite seed crystals in rhyodacitic melt Jessica F. Larsen 428 Luminescence study of defects in synthetic as-grown and HPHT diamonds compared to natural diamonds Joachim Lindblom, Jorma Holsa, Heikki Papunen, and Heikki Hakkanen 441 Molar absorptivities of OH and H2O in rhyolitic glass at room temperature and at 400-600 °C Satoshi Okumura and Satoru Nakashima 448 Ordering and elasticity associated with low-temperature phase transitions in lawsonite P. Sondergeld, W. Schranz, A. Troster, T. Armbruster, G. Giester, A. Kityk, and M.A. Carpenter 457 Formation of metastable cubic-perovskite in high-pressure phase transformation of Ca(Mg, Fe, Al)Si2O6 Yuki Asahara, Eiji Ohtani, Tadashi Kondo, Tomoaki Kubo, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Toshiro Nagase, Kiyoshi Fujino, Takehiko Yagi, and Takumi Kikegawa 463 Oxygen isotope heterogeneities and diffusion profile in composite metamorphic-magmatic garnets from the Pyrenees Daniel Vielzeuf, Michele Veschambre, and Fabrice Brunet 473 Unmixed spinel in chromitite from the Iwanai-dake peridotite complex, Hokkaido, Japan: A reaction between peridotite and highly oxidized magma in the mantle wedge Akihiro Tamura and Shoji Arai 481 Mn-bearing "oxy-rossmanite" with tetrahedrally coordinated Al and B from Austria: Structure, chemistry, and infrared and optical spectroscopic study Andreas Ertl, George R. Rossman, John M. Hughes, Stefan Prowatke, and Thomas Ludwig 488 Geochemical applications of the simple salt approximation to the lattice energies of complex materials Claude H. Yoder and Natalie J. Flora 516 "Named Amphiboles": A new category of amphiboles recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) and a defined sequence order for the use of prefixes in amphibole names Ernst A.J. Burke and Bernard E. Leake 518 NEW MINERAL NAMES John L. Jambor, Edward S. Grew, and Andrew C. Roberts 523 REVIEWERS 2004