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Fluid Inclusions

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Fluid inclusions. Small, usually microscopic, droplets of fluid that are trapped in crystals during their initial growth or post-growth during healing of fractures in the mineral.

Introduction

Fluid inclusions are small droplets of fluid that are trapped in minerals. Those trapped during growth of the crystal are referred to as primary fluid inclusions, whereas those trapped along fractures that develop and heal long after the crystal has formed are termed secondary inclusions. Pseudosecondary inclusions are inclusions that form along a healed fracture that develops and heals during the continued growth of the crystal .

During the past three-quarter century, fluid inclusions have evolved from being viewed as curious artifacts contained in minerals to become one of the most commonly used tools to constrain temperatures and pressures attending geologic processes, and for characterizing the compositions of fluids involved in those processes. Fluid inclusions range in size from...

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J. Bodnar, R. (2017). Fluid Inclusions. In: White, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_225-1

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