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Tiny Bubbles Inside Rock Yield a Treasure Chest of Knowledge |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Susan Trulove |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 742 Words, 4,465 Characters |
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Fluid inclusions--tiny bubbles of fluid or vapor trapped inside rock as it forms--are clues to the location of ores and even petroleum; and they are time capsules that contain insights on the power of volcanoes and hints of life in the universe. But the realization of the scientific value of fluid inclusions is relatively recent.
At the Centennial Celebration Symposia for the Society of Economic Geologists, Virginia Tech Distinguished Professor of Geosciences Robert Bodnar reviewed the history of the scientific uses of fluid inclusion, identify t...
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...was once water, and possibly life, among the stars. "If we have rock samples from Mars and we find inclusions with water, it increases the chances that there could have been some form of life," Bodnar said. Fluid inclusions will be an important tool to study meteorites and rocks from the moon, asteroids, and the planets we will visit to look for evidence of water and the possibility of life."
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