Inclusions of Amorphous and Crystalline SiO2 in Minerals from Itrongay (Madagascar) and Other Evidence for the Natural Occurrence of Hydrosilicate Fluids
Journal: Geosciences
Year: 2022

Experimental studies increasingly often report low-temperature (200–800 °C) and low-pressure (0.05–3 kbar) hydrosilicate fluids with &gt;40 wt.% of SiO2 and &gt;10 wt.% of H2O. Compositionally similar fluids were long suggested to potentially exist in natural systems such as pegmatites and hydrothermal veins. However, they are rarely invoked in recent petrogenetic models, perhaps because of the scarcity of direct evidence for their natural occurrence. Here we review such evidence from previous w