Amber
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17 pages found in Amber: Alfred Correya's Baltic Amber Collection
Pictures of insect inclusions from a collection acquired by the Hunterian Museum.
http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/Neil/Amber/amber.htm Amber Home
Garry Platt's personal site dedicated to amber fossil, resin and copal. Its paleontological significance is explored and there are many photographs of amber and inclusions and articles on its formation and role in human history.
http://www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/ Amber: Jewels of the Past
Amber page created by Tammi L. Johnson.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/welcome.html Amber: Window to the Past
Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History that shows a re-creation of a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/amber/ Amber with Inclusions
Provides information, photographs and articles on amber which contains beautifully preserved plant-structures and fossilized small creatures.
http://amberwithinclusions.co.uk/ Amberica West
Offers general information about amber and amber mining. Includes a discussion about recognizing fake amber.
http://www.ambericawest.com/ Baltic Amber
Provides some notes on Baltic amber, a resin produced some 30 to 40 million years ago by the now extinct pine tree, Pinus succinifera.
http://www.amber-ambre-inclusions.info/INGLESE.htm Blue Amber Information
Information portal for Dominican Blue Amber, where and how it is mined, why it is blue and its uses.
http://www.blueamber.info Fossil Amber
Amber is the perfect fossil preservative. This article discusses its inclusions, chemistry, goegraphic dispersion and the distinction between amber and copal.
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/FossilAmber.htm Fossil Amber with Inclusions of Insects and other Organisms
Provides a gallery of photographs of unwary invertebrates.
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Galleries/FossilAmber.htm Galleria di Fossilizzazioni in Ambra
Photographs of invertebrates trapped in amber with the provenance of each.
http://www.comune.pisa.it/apsn/Articoli/Lacrime/Ambre.htm Gintaro Galerija Muziejus
Museum of Baltic amber featuring exhibits of jewelry and art. [English and Lithuanian]
http://www.ambergallery.lt/english/ The Natural History of Amber
Mark R. Meyer provides an amber gallery, amber FAQ, amber timeline and a cultural history timeline.
http://www.3dotstudio.com/amberhome.html New Jersey has Treasure Trove of Amber
Article by Jeff Poling about New Jersey amber.
http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/misc/amber.htm The Search for DNA in Amber
Andrew Ross and Jeremy Austin discuss whether it possible to extract dinosaur DNA from insects in amber and re-create today these reptiles from the past.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/fossils/dna-amber/ Swedish Amber Museum
Choice of English version.
http://www.brost.se/ The World of Amber
Susie Ward Aber of Emporia State University provides a comprehensive series of articles.
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/amber.htm
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