Amber: Window to the PastThis is a comprehensive study of the various roles and uses of amber, in nature as well as art. The fossilized tree resin has not only inspired elaborate workmanship and long been used in jewelry and other decorative objects, but is also highly valued by natural scientists because it frequently encapsulates flora and fauna from other periods of evolution. |
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... resin would have floated down rivers with logs and fallen trees and eventually become stranded and concentrated on the shores . Sediments gradually covered the hardened resin , logs , and branches . Over thousands to millions of years ...
... resin would have floated down rivers with logs and fallen trees and eventually become stranded and concentrated on the shores . Sediments gradually covered the hardened resin , logs , and branches . Over thousands to millions of years ...
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... resin when bark beetles chew galleries into the wood . Living relatives of the various amber trees , especially from the tropics , are copious resin producers . Perhaps this is related to more intensive insect attacks in the tropics ...
... resin when bark beetles chew galleries into the wood . Living relatives of the various amber trees , especially from the tropics , are copious resin producers . Perhaps this is related to more intensive insect attacks in the tropics ...
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... resin turns into amber at a specific age . Actually , the process is a continuum , from freshly hardened resins to those that are truly fossilized , and no single feature identifies at what age along that continuum the substance becomes ...
... resin turns into amber at a specific age . Actually , the process is a continuum , from freshly hardened resins to those that are truly fossilized , and no single feature identifies at what age along that continuum the substance becomes ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 8 |
Deposits of the World | 21 |
Frozen in the Act | 79 |
Copyright | |
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amber deposits amber fossils amber pieces amber room amblypygids American Museum araucarian artifacts Arts Baltic amber Baltic Sea beads beetles Bequest of William Boston botanical bubbles burmite carved century A.D. chests China color copal Cretaceous Cretaceous amber Danzig deposits of amber Dominican amber Dominican Republic Drummond Collection eighteenth century Eocene Etruscan extinct flies flowers forgeries fossil fungus Height Hymenaea inclusions insects intricate ivory Jersey amber Königsberg Length of amber living relatives lizard Mastotermes Mexican amber microscopic midges million years old mines Museum für Naturkunde Museum of Natural Natural History Anthropology Natural History Entomology nineteenth century oldest opaque Opposite organisms original Palmnicken panels parasites pendant perhaps piece of amber plants polished pollen pounds preserved in amber Private collection probably Pseudolarix pseudoscorpions resin Roman Saint Petersburg simetite similar single piece spider stingless bee Stuttgart succinic acid surface technique termites tiny tissue transparent amber wasps William Arnold Buffum wood