1. Referee acknowledgement

   Acknowledgments Pages: 519 - 520

2. Microstructural defects in experimentally shocked diopside: A TEM characterization

   • Hugues Leroux
   • Jean Claude Doukhan
   • Falko Langenhorst

   OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 530

3. Structural change of GeO₂ under pressure

   • S. Kawasaki
   • O. Ohtaka
   • T. Yamanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 531 - 535

4. Calorimetric study of olivine solid solutions in the system Mg₂SiO₄-Fe₂SiO₄

   • H. Kojitani
   • M. Akaogi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 536 - 540

5. Crystal structures and cation distributions in simple spinels from powder XRD structural refinements: MgCr₂O₄, ZnCr₂O₄, Fe₃O₄ and the temperature dependence of the cation distribution in ZnAl₂O₄

   • H. St. C. O'Neill
   • W. A. Dollase

   OriginalPaper Pages: 541 - 555

6. Pressure-induced structural modifications in Mg₂GeO₄-olivine: A Raman spectroscopic study

   • Bruno Reynard
   • Pierre-Emmanuel Petit
   • Philippe Gillet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 556 - 562

7. Structural chemistry of synthetic cordierite: Evidence for solid solutions and disordered compositional domains in Bi-flux-grown Mg-cordierites

   • Kenneth B. Schwartz
   • Derek B. Leong
   • Richard L. McConville

   OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 574

8. Thermal expansion, Debye temperature and Grüneisen parameter of synthetic (Fe, Mg)SiO₃ orthopyroxenes

   • Hexiong Yang
   • Subrata Ghose

   OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 586

9. Bonding and dynamical phenomena in MgO: A high temperature ¹⁷O and ²⁵Mg NMR study

   • Peter S. Fiske
   • Jonathan F. Stebbins
   • Ian Farnan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 593

10. Phase relations in the system NaAlSiO₄-NaGaSiO₄

    • Suhua Chen
    • Michael E. Fleet
    • Yuanming Pan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 594 - 600

11. The ionic model: Extension to spatial charge distributions

    • E. Tijskens
    • W. A. Viaene
    • P. Geerlings

    OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 616

12. Bond length and radii variations in fluoride and oxide molecules and crystals

    • J. S. Nicoll
    • G. V. Gibbs
    • K. L. Bartelmehs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 617 - 624

13. Lattice dynamics and raman spectroscopy of protoenstatite, Mg₂Si₂O₆

    • Subrata Ghose
    • Narayani Choudhury
    • S. K. Sharma

    Addendum Pages: 625 - 625

14. Energy and long-range disorder in simple spinels

    • Antonio Della Giusta
    • Giulio Ottonello

    Errata Pages: 626 - 626