Synthetic fluid inclusions in natural quartz. III. Determination of phase equilibrium properties in the system H 2 O-NaCl to 1000°C and 1500 bars

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Phase equilibria in the system H 2 O-NaCl have been determined to 1000°C and 1500 bars using synthetic fluid inclusions formed by healing fractures in inclusion-free Brazilian quartz in the presence of the two coexisting, immiscible H 2 O-NaCl fluids at various temperatures and pressures. Petrographic and microthermometric analyses indicate that the inclusions trapped one or the other of the two fluids present, or mixtures of the two. Salinities of the two coexisting phases were obtained from heating and freezing studies on those inclusions which trapped only a single, homogeneous fluid phase. Results of the present study are consistent with previously published data on the H 2 O-NaCl system at lower temperatures and pressures, and indicate that the two-phase field extends well into the P - T range of most shallow magmatic-hydrothermal activity. As a consequence, chloride brines exsolved from many epizonal plutons during the process of "second-boiling" should immediately separate into a high-salinity liquid phase and a lower salinity vapor phase and produce coexisting halite-bearing and vapor-rich fluid inclusions. This observation is consistent with results of numerous fluid inclusion studies of ore deposits associated with shallow intrusions, particularly the porphyry copper deposits, in which halite-bearing and coexisting vapor-rich inclusions are commonly associated with the earliest stages of magmatic-hydrothermal activity.

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