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BLUE AMBER SPECIMEN

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BLUE AMBER SPECIMEN

Blue Amber Specimen or fossil tree sap.  Amber is a beautiful stone that is cut and polished and used as a valuable gemstone.  It is also a fossil and can contain many preserved insects and other animals and plants that are tens of millions of years old.  This specimen fluoresces electric blue under LW UV light.  It looks brown under normal light.  Age is the early Oligocene period and is of Sinamar Formation approximately 30 million years old.  Some photos are take with back lighting, natural indoor and UV Long Wave.  One side is polished and the other is rough.

Dimensions:
7.6cm x 6cm x 4.1cm, 66g.

Location:
Jambi Coal Mines, Central Sumatra, Indonesia.

Approximately C10H16O; Succinic acid.

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BLUE AMBER SPECIMENBLUE AMBER SPECIMEN

Blue Amber Specimen or fossil tree sap.  Amber is a beautiful stone that is cut and polished and used as a valuable gemstone.  It is also a fossil and can contain many preserved insects and other animals and plants that are tens of millions of years old.  This specimen fluoresces electric blue under LW UV light.  It looks brown under normal light.  Age is the early Oligocene period and is of Sinamar Formation approximately 30 million years old.  Some photos are take with back lighting, natural indoor and UV Long Wave.  One side is polished and the other is rough.

Dimensions:
7.6cm x 6cm x 4.1cm, 66g.

Location:
Jambi Coal Mines, Central Sumatra, Indonesia.

Approximately C10H16O; Succinic acid.

The fossils that are encased in amber probably got there when they flew or crawled on to the fresh seeping sap and then got stuck.  The sap oozed over the trapped animals and perhaps fell to the ground and was later covered by dirt and debris.  The sap later hardened and became a fossil.

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The fossils are mostly insects such as gnats, flies, wasps, bees and ants.  Occasionally more exotic insects are trapped in the amber such as grasshoppers, preying mantises, beetles, moths, termites, butterflies, etc.  Other non-insect animals are found in amber too such as spiders, centipedes, scorpions and even frogs and lizards.  No really large animals like mammals or birds are seen in amber but feathers and fur have been seen.  Invaluable plant remains have also been found in amber including flowers, mushroom caps, seeds, leaves, stems, pine needles and pine cones.  The rarity of the trapped fossils controls the value of the amber more so than the quality of the amber.  Remember these are fossils and are not the same species that are alive today.  Amber has greatly increased the knowledge of the evolution of insects and plants as well as enlivening the interest in paleontology in general.

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