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GEOFLUIDS
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 49-68Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-8123.2003.00048.x
Keywords
fissure quartz; fluid inclusion textures; re-equilibration; thermal peak
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Thermally re-equilibrated fluid inclusions are reported in natural fissure quartz (qtz1) from polymineralic veins in the diagenetic-anchizonal clastic sedimentary rocks of the Ci (n) over tilde era-Matallana coal basin (Variscan, NW Spain). Euhedral quartz formed during early fissure opening from an immiscible fluid mixture composed of a low salinity aqueous solution and a CH4-rich vapour phase, at temperatures of about 110-120degreesC and pressures ranging from 15 to 56 MPa. Five textural types of re-equilibration are recognised in progressive order of inclusion modification: scalloped, hairy, annular-ring shaped, haloes and decrepitation clusters. These textures resulted from a combination of brittle fracturing and dissolution and re-precipitation of quartz, with preferential loss of water. The thermal peak was short-lived, but was high enough to induce extensive decrepitation of fluid inclusions in vein quartz throughout the entire basin. Enhanced temperatures can be related to the intrusion of diorites in the basin. Careful analysis of textural features in fluid inclusions from diagenetic and very low-grade metamorphism environments constitutes a useful tool for recording basin thermal history.
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