1. Dear readers, authors and everyone else concerned with the science and production of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

   EDITORIAL Pages: 273 - 274

2. Time evolution of twin domains in cordierite: a computer simulation study

   • J. F. Blackburn
   • E. K. H. Salje

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 275 - 296

3. Single-crystal elastic properties of chondrodite: implications for water in the upper mantle

   • S. V. Sinogeikin
   • J. D. Bass

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 297 - 303

4. A Raman spectroscopic study of shock-wave densification of vitreous silica

   • M. Okuno
   • B. Reynard
   • C. Willaime

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 304 - 311

5. Intracrystalline fractionation of Fe in synthetic (Fe, Mg, Zn) - bearing staurolite: a Mössbauer spectroscopic study

   • M. Koch-Müller
   • I. Abs-Wurmbach
   • W. Bubenik

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 312 - 321

6. Determination of the mechanism of cation ordering in magnesioferrite (MgFe₂O₄) from the time- and temperature-dependence of magnetic susceptibility

   • R. J. Harrison
   • A. Putnis

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 322 - 332

7. Sound velocities and elasticity of cordierite and implications for deep crustal seismic anisotropy

   • K. Toohill
   • S. Siegesmund
   • J. D. Bass

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 333 - 343

8. Anatomy of a structural phase transition: theoretical analysis of the displacive phase transition in quartz and other silicates

   • Martin T. Dove
   • Manoj Gambhir
   • Volker Heine

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 344 - 353

9. Cation ordering in BaAl₂Ge₂O₈-feldspar: implications for the \(\) phase transition in anorthite

   • T. Malcherek
   • M. A. Carpenter
   • E. K. H. Salje

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 354 - 366