These "symplectites" look just like fluid/gas inclusions that you get
forming ladders in all sorts of minerals that have been fractured,
where the fractures are partially healed, in the presence of a fluid.
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Prof. John D. Clemens
Executive Head
Dept of Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X1, 7602 Matieland, South Africa
phone: +27 (0)21 808 3159 fax: +27 (0)21 808 3129
http://www.sun.ac.za/geo/people/clemens_e.htm
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