Four types of fluid inclusions occur in the coal seam roof in the Liulin area including the brine liquid hydrocarbon, liquid-gas hydrocarbon and gas hydrocarbon. Based on the thermodynamic of fluid inclusions, the fluid inclusions in the Shanxi Formation were classified as types of low-temperature and low salinity and of high-temperature and high salinity, while those in the Taiyuan Formation were defined as types of low-temperature and composite-salinity and of high-temperature and high salinity fluids. Types of the fluid inclusions in the Taiyuan Formation testified the superimposed impact of the paralic coal-forming environment to the connectivity with surface freshwater in the later period.