Amber: Window to the PastOriginally published to accompany a 1996 exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, this volume, now in paperback, explores the properties of amber (fossilized tree resin) and reveals its role in tracing evolutionary history and its use in the decorative arts and jewellery. |
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... Stuttgart . These beautiful photographs , which were published in the Stuttgarter Beiträge series , are of wondrous fossil and mineralogical pieces of amber , but the booklets are in German and not easily obtained . When the American ...
... Stuttgart . These beautiful photographs , which were published in the Stuttgarter Beiträge series , are of wondrous fossil and mineralogical pieces of amber , but the booklets are in German and not easily obtained . When the American ...
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... Stuttgart ) Tertiary Deposits Among the dozens of major amber deposits scattered around the world , most are from the Tertiary period , which extends from 65 million years ago to the present . Even within this period , most deposits ...
... Stuttgart ) Tertiary Deposits Among the dozens of major amber deposits scattered around the world , most are from the Tertiary period , which extends from 65 million years ago to the present . Even within this period , most deposits ...
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... Stuttgart : Staatliches Museum für Natur- kunde , 1980 . " Bernstein - Neuigkeiten . " Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde ( C ) 18 ( 1984 ) : 100 pp . Der Bernsteinwald . Exhibition cata- logue , Stuttgart : Staatliches Muse- um für ...
... Stuttgart : Staatliches Museum für Natur- kunde , 1980 . " Bernstein - Neuigkeiten . " Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde ( C ) 18 ( 1984 ) : 100 pp . Der Bernsteinwald . Exhibition cata- logue , Stuttgart : Staatliches Muse- um für ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 8 |
Deposits of the World | 21 |
Frozen in the Act | 79 |
Copyright | |
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