Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2006, V 33, N 8-9, November.

Octahedral cation ordering in Mg, 
Fe2+-olivine: an optical absorption 
spectroscopic study 
Michail N. Taran and Monika Koch-Muller
511-518 

Quantum-mechanical calculation of the 
vibrational spectrum of beryl 
(Al4Be6Si12O36) at the T point 
Mauro Prencipe, Yves Noel, 
Bartolomeo Civalleri, Carla Roetti 
and Roberto Dovesi
519-532 

Monte Carlo simulation of mixing in 
Ca3Fe2Ge3O12–Ca4Ge4O12 garnets and 
implications for the thermodynamic 
stability of pyrope–majorite solid solution 
Victor L. Vinograd, Bjoern Winkler, 
Daniel J. Wilson, Andrew Putnis 
and Julian D. Gale
533-544 

Thorite versus huttonite: stability, 
electronic properties and X-ray 
emission spectra from first-principle 
calculations 
Igor R. Shein, Konstantin I. Shein 
and Alexander L. Ivanovskii
545-552 

Natural iron-containing blue and colorless 
euclase studied by electron 
paramagnetic resonance 
K. J. Guedes, K. Krambrock, 
M. V. B. Pinheiro and 
L. A. D. Menezes Filho
553-557 


Energy transfer among Pb, Ce and Mn in 
fluorescent calcite from Kuerle, 
Xinjiang, China 
Aierken Sidike, X.-M. Wang, Alifu Sawuti, 
H.-J. Zhu, I. Kusachi and N. Yamashita
559-566 

Single-crystal elastic properties 
of alunite, KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 
J. Majzlan, S. Speziale, 
T. S. Duffy and P. C. Burns
567-573 

Pressure effect on the electronic 
structure of iron in (Mg,Fe)(Si,Al)O3 
perovskite: a combined synchrotron Mossbauer 
and X-ray emission spectroscopy 
study up to 100 GPa 
J. Li, W. Sturhahn, J. M. Jackson, 
V. V. Struzhkin, J. F. Lin, J. Zhao, 
H. K. Mao and G. Shen
575-585 

Neutron diffraction determination of the 
cell dimensions and thermal expansion 
of the fluoroperovskite KMgF3 from 293 to 3.6 K 
Roger H. Mitchell, Lachlan M. D. Cranswick 
and Ian Swainson
587-591 

The effect of composition and cation ordering 
on the compressibility of columbites up to 7 GPa 
M. Pistorino, F. Nestola, T. Boffa Ballaran 
and M. C. Domeneghetti
593-600 

D/H exchange in pure and Cr-doped enstatite: 
implications for hydrogen diffusivity 
Roland Stalder and Harald Behrens
601-611 

On the mechanisms for H and Al 
incorporation in stishovite 
Geoffrey D. Bromiley, Fiona A. Bromiley 
and David W. Bromiley
613-621 

Variation of infrared absorption spectra 
in the system Bi2Al4-xFexO9 (x = 0-4), 
structurally related to mullite 
D. Voll, A. Beran and H. Schneider
623-628 

P–V Equations of State and the relative 
stabilities of serpentine varieties 
N. Hilairet, I. Daniel and B. Reynard
629-637 

Visualization of elastic strain fields
by the spatial distribution of the blue 
luminescence in a twinned microcline crystal 
L. Sanchez-Munoz, V. Correcher, 
M. J. Turrero, A. Cremades and 
J. Garcia-Guinea
639-650