Place: University of Oulu
Time: 24.-28.2.2014
Lectured by Ferenc Molnár, Geological Survey of Finland
20 hours lecture, 7 hours classwork, 4 hours project work
Registration to: tobias.weisenberger(at)oulu.fi
Student members of the Doctoral Program in Geology from outside the Oulu area will be reimbursed for moderate travel and accommodation costs. If you need support for travel and accommodation, please contact seija.kultti(at)helsinki.fi
Schedule and syllabus
1st day, morning 9.00 – 12.00
1. Introduction to the course – 1 hr
Principles, terminology, strategies and aims of fluid inclusion studies
2. Fluid inclusion petrography (lecture) – 2 hrs
Sample preparation. Methods of petrography. Classifications of fluid inclusions according to phase compositions and origin. Inclusions’ entrapment from homogeneous and heterogeneous systems.
1st day, afternoon 13.00 – 17.00
3. Phase diagrams of the most common types of fluids in the Earth’s crust and microthermometric behaviour of fluid inclusions I.: H2O-salt systems – 2 hrs
4. Types of fluids in the Earth’s crust: analysis of phase equilibria and microthermometric behaviour fluid inclusions II.: C-O-H-N -salt systems – 2 hrs
2nd day, morning 9.00-12.00
5. Types of fluids in the Earth’s crust: analysis of phase equilibria and microthermometric behaviour fluid inclusions II.: C-O-H-N -salt systems. (cont.) -2 hrs
6. Post-entrapment modifications of fluid inclusions. – 1 hr
2nd day, afternoon 13.00 – 17.00
7. Fluid inclusion petrography (classwork, microscope ) – 4 hr
Laboratory practice on recognition of fluid inclusions in thin sections and double polished sections, practicing classifications of fluid inclusions, mapping of fluid inclusion assemblages, interpretation of petrography observations.
Bring in your sections, let’s check their fluid inclusion contents!
Selection of readings for project work.
3rd day, morning 9.00-12.00
8. Non-destructive and destructive instrumental analysis of individual fluid inclusions and bulk analysis of fluid inclusion bearing mineral samples – 2 hrs
9. Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal ore deposits – 1 hrs
Intrusion-related systems, shallow volcanic-hosted systems, sedimentary basins
3rd day, afternoon 13.00 – 17.00
10. Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal ore deposits (cont.) – 2 hrs
Intrusion-related systems, shallow volcanic-hosted systems, sedimentary basins
11. Fluid inclusions in metamorphic rocks. Application of fluid inclusion studies in structural geology and nuclear waste disposal projects – 2 hrs
4th day, morning 9.00-12.00
12. Fluid inclusion data presentation, calculations for data interpretation (classwork, PC) –3 hrs
4th day, afternoon 13.00 – 17.00
13. Project work. Reading and preparation of a short presentation in the selected subject.
5th day, morning 9.00-12.00
14. Presentations by students in the selected subjects of project works, summary and closing discussion -3 hours
Recommended readings:
Roedder, E. (1984): Fluid inclusions. Reviews in Mineralogy, vol. 12.
Samson, I. Anderson, A., Marshall, D. (Eds., 2003): Fluid inclusions. Analysis and interpretation. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Series Volume 32.