V43D:
Glass and Stone Cavities in Minerals: Melt Inclusions at 160 Years Posters


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Session ID#: 46108

Session Description:
Melt inclusions are small pockets of a former melt enclosed in minerals. The first detailed description of melt inclusions with a rigorous geological and petrological context was in the 19th century by Sorby (1858). Sorby referred to melt inclusions containing glass as glass-cavities and those containing multiple crystalline phases as stone-cavities. In the last forty years, melt inclusions have been increasingly studied and widely used in many applications, becoming a universally accepted technique in mineralogy, geochemistry, and magmatic and metamorphic petrology. Because 2018 is 160 years since Sorby published his ground-breaking contribution, this session aims to celebrate the fundamental role that melt inclusions have played, currently play, and will play in the Earth and Space Sciences. We particularly encourage contributions on post-entrapment modifications, on analytical and experimental tools and techniques, and on the geochemical evolution of magmatic and metamorphic systems and extraterrestrial materials.
Primary Convener:  Rosario Esposito, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Omar Bartoli, Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy, Rosario Esposito, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and James D Webster, Curator - Div Physical Science, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rosario Esposito, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Chairs:  Omar Bartoli, Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy and Rosario Esposito, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Omar Bartoli, Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Claudia Cannatelli, Jamie Buscher and Diego Morata, University of Chile, Department of Geology and Andean Geothermal Center of Excellence (CEGA), Santiago, Chile
Omar Bartoli1, Antonio Acosta-vigil2, Bruna B B Carvalho3, Bernardo Cesare1, Fabio Ferri1, Omar Gianola4 and Tommaso Tacchetto1, (1)University of Padova, Geoscience Department, Padova, Italy, (2)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Granada, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (3)University of Padua, Padova, Italy, (4)University degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy
Bruna B B Carvalho1, Omar Bartoli2, Fabio Ferri3, Bernardo Cesare3, Silvio Ferrero4, Laurent Remusat5, Luca Capizzi6 and Stefano Poli7, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padova, Italy, (3)University of Padova, Geoscience Department, Padova, Italy, (4)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (5)MNHN National Museum of Natural History Paris, Paris, France, (6)Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, (7)Universita'' di Milano, Milano, Italy
Rosario Esposito1, Kimberly Badescu1, Jeremy W Boyce2, Matthew Steele-MacInnis3, Craig E Manning4, Robert J Bodnar5 and Benedetto De Vivo6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA - JSC ARES, AST Planetary Science, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (6)Pegaso University, Napoli, Italy
Lowell Moore, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, Esteban Gazel, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States and Robert J Bodnar, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
Janine Andrys, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Mineral Sciences, Washington, United States, Katherine A Kelley, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Elizabeth Cottrell, Smithsonian, NMNH, Department of Mineral Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and Michelle L Coombs, U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, United States
Lisa Hlinka1, Marc-Antoine Longpre2, Wendy Perez3, Steffen Kutterolf3 and Brian Monteleone4, (1)CUNY Graduate Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States