The Evolutionary System of Mineralogy

2021

Hazen, R.M., and Morrison, S.M. (2021) On the paragenetic modes of minerals: A mineral evolution perspective. American Mineralogist, in press. 

Hazen, R.M., Morrison, S.M., Krivovichev, S.L., and Downs, R.T. (2021) Lumping and splitting: Toward a classification of mineral natural kinds. American Mineralogist, in press.

Hazen, R.M. (2021) Reply to “Comment on ‘An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification based on natural kind clustering’.” American Mineralogist, 106, 154-156.  https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7773

Hazen, R.M., Morrison, S.M., and Prabhu, A. (2021) An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part III: Primary chondrule mineralogy (4.566 to 4.561 Ga). American Mineralogist, 106, 325-350. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7564

Morrison, S.M. and Hazen, R.M. (2021) An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part IV: Planetesimal differentiation and impact mineralization (4.566 to 4.560 Ga). American Mineralogist, 106, in press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7632

Hazen, R.M., and Morrison, S.M. (2021) An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part V: Planetesimal Aqueous and thermal alteration of planetesimals (4.565 to 4.550 Ga). American Mineralogist, 106, in press. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7760

Boujibar, A., Howell, S., Zhang, S., Hystad, G., Prabhu, A., Liu, N., Stephan, T., Narkar, S., Eleish, A., Morrison, S.M., Hazen, R.M., and Nittler, L.R. (2021) Cluster analysis of presolar silicon carbide grains: Evaluation of their classification and astrophysical implications. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 907, L39 (14 pp).

Hystad, G., Boujibar, A., Liu, N., Nittler, L.R., and Hazen, R.M. (2021) Evaluation of the classification of presolar silicon carbide grains using consensus clustering with resampling methods: an assessment of the confidence of grain assignments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in review.

2020

Hazen, R.M. and Morrison, S.M. (2020) An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part I: stellar mineralogy (>13 to 4.6 Ga). American Mineralogist, 105, 627-651.  DOI: 10.2138/am-2020-7173

Morrison, S.M., and Hazen, R.M. (2020) An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part II: Interstellar and solar nebula primary condensation mineralogy (> 4.565 Ga). American Mineralogist, 105, 1508-1535. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7447

Cleland, C.E., Hazen, R.M., and Morrison, S.M. (2020) Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2015370118 (8 p).

2019

Hazen, R.M. (2019) An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification based on natural kind clustering. American Mineralogist, 104, 810-816.  DOI: 10.2138/am-2019-6709