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Quartz With Hydrocarbon Inclusions

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Quartz With Hydrocarbon Inclusions

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Locality: 
Buhirmas, Koraro, Lasbela District, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.4 × 0.9 cm
Description

 An interesting example of "Herkimer Diamond" style quartz containing hydrocarbon inclusion.

This well doubly terminated crystal has many small chambers containing yellow petroleum oil fluid inclusions . Some of the fluid inclusion chambers contains air bubbles floating upward , downward on movining the crystal in various directions , The air bubbles usually composed of water vapor, methane, or carbon dioxide.The yellow fluid inclusion chambers are fluorescent under both SW , LW light.

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