岩浆熔体包裹体研究进展

近现代对于熔体包裹体的研究已经有50余年,但它们在反映岩浆系统特征方面的价值是直至最近10~15年间才逐渐被火山学家、岩石学家和包裹体学者所意识到。熔体包裹体的研究结果之所以难以被接受主要有以下几个因素:1)缺乏可靠的分析技术;2)熔体包裹体捕获后会发生一系列的变化;3)包裹体中熔体存在不均匀的现象;4)较高的均一温度,很难测定。但随着分析方法的改进和熔体包裹体的系统研究,学者们逐渐确定了熔体包裹体在解开岩浆系统复杂性方面的实用性,可以这么说"熔体包裹体的研究正值当年"。例如:现代的研究提供了岩浆中溶解和出溶的挥发分含量的不可否认的证据,并且从熔体包裹体中得到的气相、盐类卤水和岩浆不混溶信息证明岩浆的相分离远比从结晶相图中推论得到的要复杂得多;包裹体岩相学已详细地描绘了熔体包裹体捕获之后经历的特定变化——结晶,挥发分的扩散,气相出溶,以及泄露等。因此,如果有细致的包裹体岩相学的观察以及精确的测试分析,那么,从熔体包裹体中得到的成分数据是有用且可靠的。     

Linkam热台与热液金刚石压腔的熔体包裹体均一实验对比研究

熔体包裹体均一实验是利用熔体包裹体研究原始岩浆演化和挥发分组成的基础。目前,开展包裹体均一温度实验的设备主要为Linkam系列的高温热台,而热液金刚石压腔(HDAC)是近年来才被应用到熔体包裹体均一实验中的。文章以义兴寨金矿床石英斑岩为例,对比研究了Linkam TS1500高温热台和HDAC在熔体包裹体均一实验应用中的优劣。利用Linkam TS1500高温热台得出熔体包裹体的均一温度范围为943~1190℃,而HDAC的测试结果为780~890℃。实验研究表明:HDAC能够在加热的同时提供接近熔体捕获条件的外压,更适于开展富挥发分的高内压熔体包裹体的均一实验。实验过程中得到的熔体包裹体固相初熔温度范围,可为估算义兴寨金矿床石英斑岩原始岩浆晚期结晶的压力提供依据。     

幔源角闪石巨晶中硫化物熔融包裹体研究

硫化物熔融包裹体研究是认识硫化物矿床成矿元素来源和演化的重要手段,由于硫化物熔融包裹体的体积较小(粒径仅为10～20μm),其详细化学元素组分的难以获得一直是制约进一步研究的瓶颈。笔者在前人研究的基础上,借助于扫描电镜、电镜能谱和二次飞行时间离子探针(Tof-SIMS)对产于铜陵地区角闪石巨晶中的硫化物熔融包裹体进行了详细的研究,首次获得了一套精确的矿物化学资料和元素分布图。矿物学研究表明,角闪石巨晶在上地幔和下地壳均有结晶,温压区间分别为T:850～900℃(温度),P:0.70×109～0.82×109Pa(压力),对应深度D:23.10～27.06km;和T:900～950℃,P:1.09×109～1.17×109Pa,D:35.97～38.61km。元素分布图显示,硫化物熔融包裹体主要有两种元素组成体系:S-Fe-Mn-Ni-Rb-Sr-Ba和S-Fe-Cu-Sr,幔源硫化物体系中Mn、Ni、Rb、Ba等元素具有相似的性质特征可共溶,与Cu则表现出不混溶。在铜陵地区,上地幔的部分熔融形成了一套碱性玄武岩浆,后受岩浆底侵作用和壳幔相互作用影响,底侵进入下地壳深位岩浆房,发生结晶分异和同化混染作用,形成一套轻度演化的玄武岩浆,可能为辉长质。上地幔和下地壳的角闪石巨晶分别是由上地幔碱性玄武岩浆和下地壳轻度演化的玄武岩浆(辉长质)高压下结晶的产物。当上地幔碱性玄武岩浆上侵到下地壳深位岩浆房以后,发生结晶分异作用,又由于地壳硅镁层的混染作用,使得玄武岩浆中硫溶解度降低,促其熔离,从而释放大量的硫(S,以及Ni、Cu、Cr)。角闪石巨晶中的硫化物熔融包裹体正是在下地壳深位岩浆房中,由正在结晶的角闪石巨晶在结晶分异和轻度演化的玄武质岩浆中捕获的不混溶硫化物熔融液滴形成的。铜陵地区在中生代经历了一个长期的大规模的岩浆底侵作用和壳幔相互作用过程,由于下地壳硅镁层混染作用使得轻度演化的玄武岩浆释放大量硫,必然会在莫霍面附近形成大规模高浓度的硫富集区,这些组分在岩浆上侵作用、地壳减薄作用或者裂谷作用的影响下很容易再活化,进入区域岩浆-热液流体系统,最终参与形成区域大规模的硫化物矿床。     

The determination of partial melt compositions of peridotitic systems by melt inclusion synthesis

An experimental method of melt inclusion synthesis within olivine crystals has been developed to determine the composition of the melt present in a partially molten peridotite assemblage. Trace element doped peridotite was equilibrated with 5 wt% of a C-O-H volatile source at 20 kbar/1175 °C in a piston-cylinder apparatus under buffered oxygen and sulphur fugacity conditions [log(f _O2) ∼ IW +1 log unit, log (f _S2) ∼ Fe/FeS > +1 log unit]. A single crystal of olivine, which had been cut to a disc shape, was included in the sample capsule. At run conditions the peridotite charge formed olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, Fe-Ni sulphide and a volatile-bearing melt. The melt phase is preserved as homogeneous glass inclusions up to 50 μm in size, trapped in situ in the olivine disc. The major element composition of the glass inclusions showed them to be of broadly basaltic character, but with a low Mg/(Mg + ΣFe), which is associated with precipitation of olivine from the melt inclusion onto the walls of the olivine disc during quenching. Thus the equilibrium melt composition has been calculated from the glass inclusion composition by addition of olivine component using the Fe/Mg exchange coefficient of Roeder and Emslie (1970); the desired Mg/(Mg + ΣFe) being determined from the composition of olivine formed at run conditions in the peridotite section of the charge. The melt composition obtained is close to the trend for dry melting established by Falloon and Green (1988), and it is evident that although the reduced volatiles in this case have induced a liquidus depression of some 250 °C, there has been only a small shift in melt composition. Trace element, carbon and hydrogen contents of thirteen melt inclusions have been determined by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). The trace element signature is consistent with ∼29% melting in equilibrium with a lherzolitic assemblage. The equilibrium melt has a C/H of 0.48 by weight. Carbon solubility in partial melts is thus significant under reducing conditions in the presence of dissolved “water components” and establishes a major melt fluxing role for carbon in the upper mantle. The ubiquitous presence of carbon and hydrogen in basaltic magmas underscores the importance of determining both the position of vapour-present solidi and the composition of melts generated, when developing petrogenetic models. Received: 1 July 1996 / Accepted: 25 June 1997     

Alkaline-ultrabasic mantle-derived magmas, their sources, and crystallization features: Data of melt inclusion studies

To find out the reasons responsible for the diversity of igneous rocks forming the alkaline-ultrabasic carbonatite Krestovskiy massif (the Maimecha–Kotui province, Russia) we have studied melt inclusions in clinopyroxene of trachydolerites, porphyric melanephelinites, and tholeiites. It was established that the homogenization temperatures of inclusions in these rocks are rather close: 1140–1180 °C, 1190–1230 °C, and 1150–1210 °C, respectively. Compositions of melt inclusions in clinopyroxenes from different rocks are significantly different. The chemical composition of clinopyroxene of trachydolerites corresponds to that of trachybasalts and their derivatives. The inclusions are enriched in Sr, Ba, P, and S and their total sum of alkalies (at K ≥ Na) is never less than 5–6 wt.%. Inclusions from the rims of clinopyroxene phenocrysts in porphyric melanephelinites are similar in composition also to inclusions in trachydolerites. But in the cores of clinopyroxene phenocrysts the composition of inclusions corresponds to nephelinite melt. The composition of some melt inclusions in the intermediate and cores zones of clinopyroxene from porphyric melanephelinite has high SiO₂ (53–55 wt.%), MgO (8–9 wt.%) and a low (1–2 wt.%) total sum of alkalies (at Na ≥ K) and is depleted in Al₂O₃ (6–7 wt.%), which is similar to the composition of basaltic komatiites. The composition of inclusions in tholeiites is also basic, highly magnesian, and low-alkaline, Sr and Ba are rare to absent. Compared to the inclusions of basaltic komatiite composition, the inclusions in tholeiites are enriched in Al and depleted in Ca, Ti, and P. The melts trapped in clinopyroxenes from different rocks contain low (0.014–0.018 wt.%) water but they are enriched in F: from 0.37 wt.% in nephelinite melts to 0.1–0.06 wt.% in tholeiite and basaltic komatiite melts. Inclusions in all the rocks under study, host clinopyroxene, and the rocks themselves are significantly enriched in incompatible elements (1–2 orders of magnitude relative to the mantle norm). In tholeiites, the partitioning of these elements is rather uniform, while in trachydolerites and especially in melanephelinites it is contrasting with a drastic depletion in HREE relative to LREE, MREE, and HFSE. A conclusion is made that the Krestovskiy massif was formed by no less than three mantle-derived magmas: melanephelinite, tholeiite and basaltic komatiite. Magmas were generated in different magma sources at different depths with various degrees of enrichment in incompatible elements. These magmas were, most likely, dominated by melanephelinite magma. In intermediate chambers this magma differentiated to form derivative melts of nephelinite, trachydolerite–trachyandesite–trachyte compositions. Komatiite-basalt melts were, most likely, derivatives of primitive meimechite magmas.     

熔体包裹体分析技术进展

熔体包裹体是岩浆岩中矿物生长或结晶过程中捕获的少量硅酸盐熔体,成为地球深部过程的重要见证者。因此,有效识别其记录的岩浆演化信息显得十分重要。文章在前人对熔体包裹体研究的基础上,系统梳理其研究方法,总结了5步研究过程：① 利用偏光显微镜,开展详细的岩相学观察以识别具有代表性的熔体包裹体类型;② 为加热实验和成分分析制备样品;③ 利用高温热台,对熔体包裹体进行加热实验使其内部均一化,并测得捕获温度;④ 通过电子探针、二次离子探针、LA-ICP-MS、显微激光拉曼等技术对熔体包裹体中的主、微量元素、同位素以及挥发分组成进行分析测试;⑤ 熔体包裹体数据分析,与全岩成分和相关实验得出的流体成分进行对比。虽然熔体包裹体的研究经历了近百年的发展,但有效还原其代表的初始岩浆信息,仍然是当前研究的难点和热点。尤其是地球系统科学发展引发宜居地球深部过程的探讨,使得开展熔体包裹体分析新方法的探讨成为重中之重。     

熔体包裹体对长白山天池火山千年大喷发的指示意义

长白山天池火山在全新世曾有过几次喷发,其中距今约1000年发生过大规模布里尼式爆炸喷发（即“千年大喷发”）,其喷发产物——灰白色碱流质浮岩和喷发柱垮塌形成的火山碎屑流分布范围极广,除长白山区外,在朝鲜半岛和日本北部也有大量浮岩降落和堆积。根据野外较大范围的系统采样、镜下观察和测试分析,在天池火山千年大喷发产物的碱性长石晶屑中发现了两组颜色、形态、化学成分迥异的“火口组”和“圆池组”熔体包裹体,对揭示天池火山千年大喷发的成因具有重要意义。根据电子探针分析结果,“火口组”熔体包裹体成分为英安岩和粗面英安岩,寄主晶多为透长石;“圆池组”熔体包裹体成分为粗面英安岩和流纹岩,寄主晶为歪长石。相对“火口组”熔体包裹体,“圆池组”包裹体具有高SiO2、高H2O和高Cl含量的特点,化学成分也更为演化,可能是天池火山千年大喷发时岩浆结晶分异后期的产物。两组包裹体的存在为千年大喷发前的层状地壳岩浆房和成分并非单一提供了证据,它们可能是在同次大喷发的不同序列中喷出的。由于地幔岩浆注入地壳岩浆房,导致不同层位岩浆的扰动和混合作用,因挥发分出溶在岩浆房最顶部形成挥发分梯度和过饱和,最终触发了天池火山的千年大喷发,对当时的气候环境造成过较大影响。     

The process of melt formation upon heating of quartz-feldspar rocks

Doklady Earth Sciences -     

Fluid inclusion studies of the Felbertal scheelite deposit

Fluid inclusion measurements on quartz, scheelite, beryl, fluorite and calcite in the metamorphosed Felbertal scheelite deposit display two main types of fluid inclusions:

1. H₂O-CO₂ fluid inclusions are characterized by variable amounts of CO₂ up to 18 wt.%. They show two or three phases at room temperature. The bulk homogenization temperatures for the inclusions range between +269 °C and +357 °C. The calculated salinities are between 2.2 and 7.8 wt.% NaCl equivalent. For the late CO₂-bearing fluid inclusions a methane component is evident from microthermometrical data (T_mclath >10.0 °C combined with T_mCO₂
2. Aqueous, two-phase fluid inclusions with salinities in the range between 0 and 11 wt.% NaCl equivalent. Their homogenization temperatures are scattered between 100 °C and 360 °C.

Both types of fluid inclusions are of Alpine origin. They do not record the conditions of the original tungsten ore formation in pre-Alpine (Upper Proterozoic) time. However, it was possible to deduce a path for the fluid evolution and the combined ore redeposition during the retrograde Alpine metamorphism and tectonism from microthermometrical and petrographical studies.     

The melt inclusion record from the rhyolitic Kos Plateau Tuff (Aegean Arc)

The >60 km³ rhyolitic Kos Plateau Tuff provides an exceptional probe into the behavior of volatile components in highly evolved arc magmas: it is crystal-rich (30–40 vol% crystals), was rapidly quenched by the explosive eruptive process, and contains abundant homogeneous melt inclusions in large quartz crystals. Several methods for measuring major, trace and volatile element concentrations (SIMS, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, electron microprobe, LA–ICPMS) were applied to these melt inclusions. We found a ~2 wt% range of H₂O contents (4.5–6.5 wt% H₂O, measured independently by SIMS, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopy) and relatively low CO₂ concentrations (15–140 ppm measured by FTIR, with most analyses <100 ppm). No obvious correlations between H₂O, CO₂, major and trace elements are observed. These observations require a complex, protracted magma evolution in the upper crust that included: (1) vapor-saturated crystallization in a chamber located between 1.5 and 2.5 kb pressure, (2) closed-system degassing (with up to 10 vol% exsolved gas) as melts percolated upwards through a vertically extensive mush zone (2–4 km thick), and (3) periodic gas fluxing from subjacent, more mafic and more CO₂-rich magma, which is preserved as andesite bands in pumices. These processes can account for the range of observed H₂O and CO₂ values and the lack of correlation between volatiles and trace elements in the melt inclusions.     

Application of a new inorganic gas-chromatograph to fluid inclusion research

CXL-101 inorganic gas-chromatograph is characterized by its high sensitivity, high speed. small quantity of sample required, less adsorption and high reliability of results. The H₂O and CO₂ contents of fluid inclusions in 41 samples were measured by this instrument from a number of types of tungsten and quartz deposits. Regular variation has been found in the content of H₂O, i.e., it decreases with decreasing distance towand the parent rock, or with increasing temperature, and vice versa. This regularity may be ascribed to the origin of the fluid, distance between parent rock and ore deposit, temperature of formation, changes in the paths of fluid movement as well as the nature of country rocks.     

岩浆到热液演化的包裹体记录——以骑田岭花岗岩体为例

骑田岭花岗岩是燕山期花岗岩早期多阶段侵入复式岩体,岩石化学的研究表明它是富碱的、高分异的A型花岗岩,形成于板内拉张的构造环境。在其第二阶段中细粒黑云母花岗岩内广泛发育着厘米级至米级似伟晶岩囊状体和石英晶洞, 它们是富挥发份岩浆固结的产物,代表岩石形成过程经历了明显的岩浆-热液过渡阶段。包裹体显微岩相学研究在骑田岭黑云母花岗岩的石英中发现熔体-流体包裹体和流体包裹体共存,这一结果进一步证实骑田岭中细粒黑云母花岗岩中的似伟晶岩囊状体和石英晶洞是花岗质熔体在岩浆-热液过渡阶段的产物。显微测温结果显示,熔体-流体包裹体的捕获温度大于530℃,说明岩浆热液过渡阶段的温度不低于该温度;闪锌矿中流体包裹体的均一温度在285~417℃之间,盐度为11.7% NaCleqv,代表了成矿流体的温度和盐度;流体包裹体的均一温度为172~454℃,代表热液阶段流体的温度。从中细粒黑云母花岗岩到似伟晶岩囊状体再到石英晶洞,岩浆-热液体系经历了富挥份熔体→熔体+高盐度流体→高盐度流体→低盐度流体的完整演化过程,形成了CaCl₂-NaCl-H₂O-CO₂体系的岩浆热液流体。包裹体岩相学及激光拉曼探针分析结果显示,在流体包裹体和多晶熔体-流体包裹体中含有长石、方解石、金红石及金属氧化物等子矿物,暗示其所捕获的流体具有较强的成矿能力。     

海南岛石碌矽卡岩铁矿石中石榴子石的熔融包裹体及其意义

对石碌铁矿一块具有代表性的新鲜矽卡岩铁矿石标本进行了岩石薄片显微镜观察、电子探针和喇曼光谱分析研究.在石榴子石中发现了熔融包裹体.这些包裹体主要特点是大小悬殊和成群或成带分布,最大者达98μm×5μm,最小者为1μm×1μm,多数包裹体长约5～30μm,宽约2～7μm,也有不少呈孤立状散布在石榴子石中.其形态多样,呈纺锤形、哑铃形,串珠状,藕形,近圆形和不规则状.研究的矽卡岩主要由钙铁榴石组分高的石榴子石、磁铁矿、石英、透闪石和透辉石组成,还有呈定向和星点分布的磷灰石,少量锆石与榍石;石榴子石中的熔融包裹体捕获的熔体由含Ca、Fe、Al和挥发分(H2O和CO2)的硅酸盐熔融体组成.在熔融包裹体冷却过程中,由于温度缓慢降低,赤铁矿、钙铁榴石、石英、方解石和透辉石从上述硅酸盐熔体中析出,剩下的残余熔体不混溶,变成含有Ca和Si等杂质的铁质熔体、含si、Fe的碳酸盐熔体和含Ca、Al、Fe的硅酸盐熔体.喇曼光谱测定显示,石榴子石中熔融包裹体含有石榴子石、赤铁矿和方解石,个别含少量水蒸气.磁铁矿含有可疑的Fe、Sj熔融包裹体和Sj、Fe熔融包裹体.在透辉石-透闪石矽卡岩铁矿石的石榴子石里发现大量熔融包裹体的事实无疑.矽卡岩铁矿石石榴子石中熔融包裹体的首次发现,它可能有助于石碌铁矿床挖掘老矿潜力和拓宽找矿的新思路.     

大冶铁矿床夕卡岩矿物中熔融包裹体的发现及其地质地球化学意义

以显微照片方式报道了对大冶铁矿床夕卡岩矿物中熔融包裹体、熔－流包裹体和流体包裹体的观察结果和对包裹体相态特征的研究结果。结果表明,在所研究的包裹体中,矿物熔融包裹体最为常见,偶见熔－流包裹体和流体包裹体。熔融包裹体在大冶铁矿床夕卡岩矿物中不仅存在而且广泛分布,在偏光显微镜下很容易找到。熔融包裹体的存在对夕卡岩传统的接触交代成因观点具有挑战性,有助于夕卡岩和夕卡岩矿床成因理论研究水平的提高。     

湖南芙蓉锡多金属矿床流体包裹体地球化学研究

湖南芙蓉锡多金属矿床是中国最近发现的具有巨大找矿潜力的锡矿田，本文对白蜡水矿区和狗头岭矿区中主要的4种矿化类型（矽卡岩型、蚀变花岗岩、锡石硫化物型、云英岩型）进行了系统的流体包裹体研究，研究表明：该矿床中流体包裹体类型复杂，包括富含CO₂包裹体、气液包裹体、含子晶包裹体和气相包裹体。成矿流体为富含CO₂、CH₄等挥发分的高盐度、高温度的岩浆期后热液，成矿流体压力为1800~179 bar。锡成矿过程早期曾发生过流体不混溶和沸腾作用。CO₂相的分离导致热液流体的pH值升高，低盐度、低温大气降水的混入，导致成矿流体的温度进一步降低和锡石的沉淀。     

Fluid inclusion studies of the polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposits in bolivia

Homogenization temperature and salinity were determined for fluid inclusions in mostly quartz and partly sphalerite, cassiterite, and barite from the 28 tin-polymetallic ore deposits in Bolivia. Generally, the homogenization temperatures and salinities of these fluid inclusions are comparatively high for ore deposits formed by cassiterite mineralization, such as Morococala and Avicaya in the Oruro district, frequently indicating a temperature higher than 300°C and salinity higher than 20 equiv. wt% NaCl. Particularly, it is quite possible that tin deposits associated with the W-Bi and tourmaline mineralizations such as Viloco and Caracoles have been produced by such high-temperature hypersaline fluid ranging up to 500°C and 56 equiv. wt% NaCl, similar to the porphyry copper type. This feature reveals that the hydrothermal fluid related to the Sn-W-Bi mineralization may be of magmatic origin. Homogenization temperatures for the Pb-Zn deposits with no tin minerals are low, mostly ranging 170°–300°C. At the Avicaya-Bolivar mining area in the Oruro district as well as at the Tasna and Chocaya-Animas mining areas in the Quechisla district temperature gradients consistent with the zonal distributions of ore minerals were confirmed.     

河台韧性剪切带金矿床成矿物理化学条件研究及熔融包裹体的发现

河台韧性切带金矿床产于震旦系－志留为质岩系深大断裂糜棱岩带中,本研究首次在矿床含矿石英脉及糜棱岩中发现熔融包裹体,流体－熔融包裹体及有机包裹体。不同类型包裹体均一温度,有机包裹体为１６０℃,成矿流体属Ｋ＾＋－Ｃａ＾２＋－Ｍｇ＾２＋－Ｎａ＾＋－ＳＯ４＾２－ＨＣＯ＾２－４－ＨＣＯ３＾－４－Ｃｌ＾－体系,具中偏碱性,微量气体特征：Ｈ２Ｏ〉ＣＯ２〉ＣＨ４〉（或〈）Ｈ２〉ＣＯ〉Ｃ２Ｈ２〉Ｃ２Ｈ６〉Ｏ２〉ＨＪ     

低温原位拉曼光谱技术在流体包裹体研究中的应用

国外学者自80年代起利用原位低温拉曼测定技术在国际上首先开展地质领域感兴趣的几种盐水化合物研究以来,原位低温拉曼测定技术已经成功地用于对人工合成和自然界盐水体系流体包裹体的研究,在流体相中盐类的鉴定、低温相平衡及盐度研究等方面取得了显著成果。该方法是对传统的流体包裹体显微测温方法的重要补充,正在成为国际上流体包裹体研究的一个新的热点,在地质流体研究方面具有非常广阔的应用前景。     

Thin intergranular melt films and melt pockets in spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Rhön area (Germany): early stage of melt generation by grain boundary melting

Optical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on a porphyroclastic high temperature spinel peridotite from the Rhön area reveal fine, irregular glass layers and pockets along mineral interfaces, cracks in olivine, inside olivine crystals and in spongy rims of clinopyroxene. The chemical composition of the glass deviates significantly from the composition of the host basanite. Electron diffraction technique confirms the amorphous nature of the glass, thus classifying it as a former melt. Every grain or phase boundary shows amorphous intergranular glass layers of variable thickness and characteristic chemical composition with distinct chemical inhomogeneities. Olivine grain boundaries, as the most common type of interfaces, exhibit two different types of melt glasses: (1) Type I melt at olivine grain boundaries, which is characterized by low contents of SiO₂ (～37?wt%) and Al₂O₃ (～5?wt%) and elevated contents of MgO (～31?wt%) and FeO (～22?wt%), is supposed to have formed prior to or during the thermal overprint and the dynamic recrystallisation of the xenolith in the mantle. Melt inclusions inside olivine grains with an average composition of type I melt are suggested to be earlier melt droplets at olivine interfaces, overgrown by migrating olivine grain boundaries during recrystallization in the mantle prior to the uplift of the xenolith. (2) Type II melt, the most common type of melt in the xenolith, shows higher contents of SiO₂ (～48?wt%) and Al₂O₃ (～17?wt%) but lower contents of MgO (～20?wt%) and FeO (～11?wt%). The observation of different types of glass within a single xenolith indicates the development of different chemical melt equilibria at interfaces or triple junctions in the xenolith. The absence of geochemical trends in bivariate plots excludes a unifying process for the genesis of these glasses. Melt inclusions in the spongy rims of clinopyroxene are interpreted to be the product of a potassium-rich metasomatism. The formation of most amorphous intergranular melt layers and pockets at the mineral interfaces including type II melt at olivine grain boundaries is suggested to result from decompression melting during the uplift with the basalt magma. We suggest that these glasses were produced by grain boundary melting due to lattice mismatch and impurity segregation. The observed intergranular amorphous layers or melts represent the very beginning of mineral melting by grain boundary melting.     

A melt and fluid inclusion assemblage in beryl from pegmatite in the Orlovka amazonite granite, East Transbaikalia, Russia: implications for pegmatite-forming melt systems

Beryl crystals from the stockscheider pegmatite in the apical portion of the Li-F granite of the Orlovka Massif in the Khangilay complex, a tantalum deposit, contain an assemblage of melt and fluid inclusions containing two different and mutually immiscible silicate melts, plus an aqueous CO₂-rich supercritical fluid. Pure H₂O and CO₂ inclusions are subordinate. Using the terminology of Thomas R, Webster JD, Heinrich W. Contrib Mineral Petrol 139:394–401 (2000) the melt inclusions can be classified as (i) water-poor type-A and (ii) water-rich type-B inclusions. Generally the primary trapped melt droplets have crystallized to several different mineral phases plus a vapor bubble. However, type-B melt inclusions which are not crystallized also occur, and at room temperature they contain four different phases: a silicate glass, a water-rich solution, and liquid and gaseous CO₂. The primary fluid inclusions represent an aqueous CO₂-rich supercritical fluid which contained elemental sulfur. Such fluids are extremely corrosive and reactive and were supersaturated with respect to Ta and Zn. From the phase compositions and relations we can show that the primary mineral-forming, volatile-rich melt had an extremely low density and viscosity and that melt-melt-fluid immiscibility was characteristic during the crystallization of beryl. The coexistence of different primary inclusion types in single growth zones underlines the existence of at least three mutually immiscible phases in the melt in which the large beryl crystals formed. Moreover, we show that the inclusions do not represent an anomalous boundary layer.