Hello and welcome to Amber with Inclusions, here you can read some amazing articles and current news on Amber. We hope the information available on this site will help those people with an interest in Amber with Inclusions to learn more about this amazing subject. This site is a free wealth of information for any including amber hobbyists, children and researchers alike. Articles here are sourced from all over the web and we welcome anyone with something interesting to say to submit there own.
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As our shop is so new I have decided to offer FREE SHIPPING on all uk orders until 2009. In our shop we specialise in Baltic Amber with Animal inclusions. Amber is for those of you who don't know is the resin from 40 million year old tree's. All Amber can contain, in addition to the beautifully preserved plant-structures, numerous remains of insects, spiders, annelids, frogs, crustaceans and other small creatures that were trapped by the sticky surface and became enveloped while the exudation was fluid. Generally in most Amber fossils the organic structure has disappeared, leaving only a cavity, with perhaps a trace of chitin. Sometimes hair and feathers are caught in the resin from animals that have come in contact with the sticky substance.
Plant matter like pieces of wood are also frequently trapped, with structures and tissues well-preserved by impregnation with the resin; less often leaves, flowers and fruits are found in marvellous perfection. Sometimes the amber retains the form of drops and stalactites, just as it exuded from the ducts and receptacles of the injured trees. It is thought that, in addition to exuding onto the surface of the tree, amber resin also originally flowed into hollow cavities or cracks within trees, thereby leading to the development of large lumps of amber of irregular form.
The abnormal development of resin has been called succinosis. Impurities are quite often present, especially when the resin dropped on to the ground, so that the material may be useless except for varnish-making, whence the impure amber is called firniss. Enclosures of pyrites may give a bluish colour to amber. The so-called black amber is only a kind of jet Bony amber owes its cloudy opacity to minute bubbles in the interior of the resin.
Personally what amber is all about to me is pure beauty of a perfect prehistoric animal trapped in time and the gorgeous rich colours that fascinate me so much. I am personally just a amateur collector of amber myself and have aquired a few interesting pieces for anyone to buy on this site, however this for me is more about spreading the word and not making a profit. I would rather my visitors enjoyed my site and spread the word than spending any money. I am always looking for more articles to post on the site, so if you have one or have found one of interest it please share the article with us and we will post it on the site.
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