A brief history of solid inclusion piezobarometry

Abstract

Solid inclusion piezobarometry is the determination of the entrapment conditions of solid inclusions in a host by measurement and interpretation of the residual pressure of the inclusion. The development over the past two centuries of the concepts, analytical tools and measurement techniques of inclusion piezobarometry is reviewed, and potential future developments are outlined for the special issue of the European Journal of Mineralogy devoted to the study of mineral and melt inclusions.