Alphabetical Listing for M

• MacKenzie KJD (1972) The possible role of sulphur in the coloration of Blue John fluorite. Mineral Mag 38:979-981
• Malasy AK, Karampelas S, Schwarz D, Klemm L, Armbruster T, Taun DA (2012) Orangey-red to orangey-pink gem spinels from a new deposit at Lang Chap (Tan Huong-Truc Lau), Vietnam. Journal of Gemmology 37:19-27.
• Manceau A, Calas G, Decarreau A (1985) Nickel-bearing clay minerals: I. Optical spectroscopic study of nickel crystal chemistry. Clay Minerals 21:341-360
• Manceau A, Calas G (1987) Absence of evidence for Ni/Si substitution in phyllosilicates. Clay Minerals 22:357-362
• Manning PG (1966) Cu(II) in octahedral sites in sphalerite. Canadian Mineral 8:567-571
• Manning PG (1967a) The optical absorption spectra of the garnets almandine-pyrope, pyrope, and spessartite and some structural interpretations of mineralogical significance. Canadian Mineral 9:237-251
• Manning PG (1967b) The optical absorption spectra of some andradites and the identification of the 6A1 - 4A14E(G) transition in octahedrally bonded Fe3+. Canadian J Earth Sci 4:1039-1047
• Manning PG (1967c) Absorption spectra of Fe(III) in octahedral sites in sphalerite. Canadian Mineral 9:57-64
• Manning PG (1968a) Optical absorption spectra of octahedrally bonded Fe3+ in vesuvianite. Canadian J Earth Sci. 5:89-92
• Manning PG (1968b) Absorption spectra of the manganese-bearing chain silicates pyroxmanganite, rhodonite, bustamite and serandite. Canadian Mineral 9:348-357
• Manning PG (1969a) On the origin of colour and pleochroism of astrophyllite and brown clintonite. Canadian Mineral 9, 663-677
• Manning PG (1969b) Optical absorption studies of grossular, andradite (var. colophonite) and uvarovite. Canadian Mineral 9, 723-729
• Manning PG (1969c) Optical absorption spectra of chromium-bearing tourmaline, black tourmaline and buergerite. Canadian Mineral 9, 57-70
• Manning PG (1969d) An optical absorption study of the origin of colour and pleochroism in pink and brown tourmalines. Canadian Mineral 9, 678-690
• Manning PG (1970) Racah parameters and the relationship to lengths and covalence of Mn2+- and Fe3+-oxygen bonds in silicates. Canadian Mineral 10, 677-688.
• Manning PG, Townsend MG (1970) Effect of next-nearest neighbour interaction on oscillator strengths in garnets. J Phys Chem 3, L14-15
• Manning PG, Harris DC (1970) Optical-absorption and electron-microprobe studies of some high-Ti andradites. Canadian Mineral 10, 260-271
• Manning PG, Nickel EH (1970) A spectral study of the origin of colour and pleochroism of a titanaugite from Kaiserstuhl and of a riebeckite from St. Peter's Dome, Colorado. Canadian Mineral 10, 71-83
• Manning PG (1972) Optical absorption spectra of Fe3+ in octahedral and tetrahedral sites in natural garnets. Canadian Mineral 11:826-839
• Manning PG (1973a) Extinction coefficients of Fe3+ spectral bands in oxides and silicates as indicators of local crystal composition. Canadian Mineral 12:120-123
• Manning PG (1973b) Effect of second-nearest-neighbour interaction on Mn3+ absorption in pink and black tourmalines. Canadian Mineral 11:971-977
• Manning PG, Tricker MJ (1975) Optical absorption and Mössbauer spectral studies of iron and titanium site-populations in vesuvianites. Canadian Mineral 13:259-265
• Manning PG (1975) Charge-transfer processes and the origin of colour and of pleochroism of some Ti-rich vesuvianites. Canadian Mineral 13:110-116
• Manning PG (1976) Ferrous-ferric interaction on adjacent face-sharing antiprismatic sites in vesuvianites: evidence for ferric ion in eight coordination. Canadian Mineral 14:216-220
• Manning PG (1977) Charge-transfer interactions and the origin of color in brown vesuvianite. Canadian Mineral 15:508-511
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1971) Crystal field spectra. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 70:207-215
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1972a) Interpretation of the pressure effect on the optical absorption bands of natural fayalite to 20 kb. Crystal field stabilization of the olivine-spinel transition. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 71:524-527
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1972b) Electrical conductivity and red shift of absorption in olivine and spinel at high pressure. Science, 176:403-406
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1972c) Optical and electrical behavior of olivine and spinel (Fe2SiO4) at high pressure. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 71:520-524
• Mao HK, Bell, PM and Dickey, JS. (1972) Comparison of the crystal-field spectra of natural and synthetic chrome diopside. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 71:538-541
• Mao HK (1973) Observations of optical absorption and electrical conductivitty in mangesiowustite at high pressures. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 72:554-557.
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1973b) Polarized crystal-field spectra of microparticles of the moon. In : Analytical Methods Developed for applicaton to Lunar Sample Analyses. ASTM STP 539, 100-119. Amer Soc. for Testing and Materials.
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1973b) Luna 20 plagioclase: Crystal-field effects and chemical analysis of iron. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 72:662-665.
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1974a) Crystal-field effects of ferric iron in goethite and lepidocrocite: band assignment and geochemical applications at high pressure. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 73:502-507
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1974b) Crystal-field effects in spinel: oxidation states of iron and chromium. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 73:332-341.
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1974c) Crystal field effects of trivalent titanium in fassaite from the Pueble de Allende meteorite. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 73:488-492.
• Mao HK, Seifert F (1974) A study of the crystal-field effects of iron in the amphiboles anthophyllite and gedrite. Carnegie Inst. Washington Yearbook 73:500-502
• Mao HK, Bell PM (1975) Crystal-field effects in spinel: oxidation states of iron and chromium. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 39:865-874
• Mao HK (1976) Charge-transfer processes at high pressure. In: The Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Rocks. RGJ Strens, ed., J Wiley, New York, p. 573-581
• Mao HK, Bell PM, Virgo D (1977) Crystal-field spectra of fassaite from the Angra Dos Reis meteroite. Earth Planet Sci Let 35:352-356
• Marfunin, A. S.; Platonov, A. N.; Fedorov, V. E. (1967) Iron(II) optical spectrum in sphalerite. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (Leningrad) 9:3616-3618 (in Russian)
• Marfunin AS, Mineeva RM, Mkrtchyan AR, Nyussik YaM, Fedorov VE (1967) Optical and Moessbauer spectroscopy of iron in rock-forming silicates. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya 1967:86-102 (in Russian)
• Maschmeyer D, Lehmann G (1983) A trapped-hole center causing rose coloration of natural quartz. Zeit Kristallogr 163:181-196
• Mathew G, Karamth RV, Gundu Rao TK, Deshpande RS (1998) Maxixe-type colour centre in natural colourless beryl from Orisssa, India: an ESR and OA investigation. J Gemmology 26:238-251
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Belichenko VP (1978) On the dependence spectroscopic parameters of Cr3+ ions on garnet composition. Konst Svoystv Mineral (Constitution and Properties of Minerals) 12:112-115 (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Taran MN, Smirnov GI, Povarennych AS (1980) On blue-purple "alexandrite effect" in chromium-bearing pyropes. Dokl AN UkSSR 1: 27-32 (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Khomenko VM (1985) Optical spectra and color of mantle minerals in kimberlites. Kiev, Naukova Dumka (in Russian).
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Genshaft YS, Saltykovskii AY, Slodkevich V, Kaminskii FV, Kepezinskas V (1988) Optical-spectropscopic study of garnets from deep-seated paragenesis. Izves Akad Nauk SSSR, Ser Geolog 1988:46-58 Iin Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Bulanova GP (1989) Optical spectra of orange garnets included in diamonds. Dock Akad Nauk Ukr SSR 5:15-18
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Pol'shin EV, Taran MN, Tatarintsev VI, Badion NS, Vishnevski AA, Safronov AF, Smirnov GI (1989) Spineloids of Mantle Rocks. 211 pp. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, USSR (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Bartoshinskii ZV, Platonov AN, Bekesha SN, Vinichenko TG (1990) Optical spectra and color of diamonds from some deposits of Russia. Mineralogicheskii Sbornik (Lvov) 44:3-10 (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN. Spbe;ev MV (1994) Effect of crystal chemical factors on optical spectra and coloration of chromium-containing garnets. Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii 60:141-151 (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS, Tsvelodub IF, Bugaenko VN (1999) Optical absroption spectra and color of the Mn-bearing garnets. Mineralogichesky Zhurnal 21: 44-59 (in Russian)
• Matsyuk SS (1999) Mineralogy of rutile websterites from kimberlites: New data. Mineralogichesky Zhurnal 21:61-71
• Mattson SM, Rossman GR (1984) Ferric iron in tourmaline. Phys Chem Minerals 14:225-234
• Mattson SM, Rossman GR (1986) Yellow, manganese-rich elbaite with manganese-titanium intervalence charge transfer. Amer Mineral 71:599-602
• Mattson SM, Rossman GR (1987a) Identifying characteristics of charge transfer transitions in minerals. Phys Chem Minerals 14:94-99
• Mattson SM, Rossman GR (1987b) Fe2+-Fe3+ interactions in tourmaline. Phys Chem Minerals, 14:163-171
• Mattson SM, Rossman GR (1988) Fe2+-Ti4+ charge transfer in stoichiometric Fe2+, Ti4+-minerals. Phys Chem Minerals 16:78-82
• McClure DS (1962) Optical spectra of transition metal ions in corundum. J Chem Phys 36:2757-2779
• McClure DS (1963) Comparison of the crystal fields and optical spectra of Ce2O3 and ruby. J Chem Phys 38:2757-2779
• Milisenda CC, Henn U (1996) Compositional characteristics of sapphires from a new find in Madagascar. J Gemm 25:177-184
• Mineeva RM, Bershov LV, Marfunin AS, Petrov I, Hafner S (1992) The dimers (lead-lead)3+ in amazonite structure (in Russian). Geokhimiya 1992:1149-59
• Mitra S (1981) Nature and genesis of colour centers in yellow and colorless fluorite from Amba Dongar, Gujrat, India. N Jb Mineral 141:290-308
• Mittani JCR, Watanabe S, Chubaci JFD, Matsuoka M, Baptista DL, Zawislak FC (2002) Radiation effects on colourless silicates of beryl. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 191:281-284
• Moore RK, White WB (1971) Intervalence electron transfer effects in the spectra of the melanite garnets. Amer Mineral 56:826-840
• Moore RK, White WB (1972) Electronic spectra of transition metal ions in silicate garnets. Canadian Mineral 11:791-811
• Morozov M, Trinkler M, Plötz M, Kempe U (1996) Spectroscopic studies on fluorites from Li-F and alkaline granitic systems in central Kazakhstan. In: Shatov, Seltmann, Kremenetsky, Lehmann, Popov & Ermolov (Eds) Granite-Related Ore Deposits of Central Kazakhstan and Adjacent Areas. INTAS-93-1783 Project, St. Petersburg; pp 359-369
• Mrosko M, Lenz S, McCammon CA, Taran M, Wirth R, Moch-Müller M (2013) Hydrogen incorporation and the oxidation state of iron in ringwoodite: A spectroscopic study. Amer Mineral 98, 629-636.