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Amber World Museum :: Dominican Amber fossils inclusions scientific jewelry While Baltic amber formed from hardened resin of the pine tree, Pinus Succinifera, amber from the Dominican Republic originated from an extinct species of broad-leaved tropical trees Hymenaea of the legume family, whose closest relative is still found in East Africa. Amber lovers, scientists and collectors alike value Dominican Amber for the three rare "treasures", which are scorpions, lizards and frogs. The warm beauty of amber caused that for thousands of years it was regarded as a precious substance, and for its mysterious origin considered as a divine protection from harm to the bearer of amber jewelry. www.amberworldmuseum.com   (684 words)

Geo-Site July 23, 1998 Amber at the American Museum of Natural History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Amber is a form of tree resin -- exuded as a protective mechanism against disease and insect infestation -- that has hardened and been preserved in the earth's crust for millions of years. Dominican amber is mined chiefly to the north and east of Santiago, where landslides reveal veins of lignite -- or flened, fossilized wood -- which accompany amber deposits. Dominican amber occurs in several colors, including yellow and deep red, as well as the rarer blue and smoky green. www.wtgs.org /amber.htm   (392 words)

Amberlady Article; A New Look at Dominican Amber Amber is generally defined as a fossil resin, one of the few substances considered a gem which is not of mineral origin (diamond, jet, pearl and ivory being the others). Dominican amber is mined in three main regions of the island (see map). Baltic amber was derived from either a pine or a gum tree (origin is currently being debated), whereas Dominican amber's mother tree was leguminous, the Hymenaea. www.amberlady.com /article.htm   (1940 words)

DR-AMBER Amber is mined in two areas of the Dominican Republic. Dominican amber was formed from an extincted species of the genus Hymenaea. If an amber insect has living relatives that exclusively feeds on a certain genus of tree, the assumption is that the extinct species also fed upon this genus. snakefly.tripod.com /dr-amber.htm   (210 words)

Blue Amber, green amber, rough amber, raw amber and amber fossils and inclusions supplier directly from the Dominican ... Amber jewelry supplier and blue amber jewelry supplier directly from the mines, manufacturer offers custom crafted amber and amberand silver jewelry, rough and raw amber from the Dominican mines in the Caribbean, amber earrings, amber bracelets, amber rings, amber chains, amber necklaces and blue amber necklaces. One theory links the color in Dominican blue amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust which was present when the resin was first pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago. Amber from the Dominican Republic is renowned for the diversity of inclusions it contains, the three rare "treasures", which are scorpions, lizards and frogs but also many other "bugs" in amber, like pseudo scorpion, fly, damsel fly, dragon fly, termite in amber. www.ambarazul.com   (783 words)

Amber, Amber Beads, Blue Amber, Red Amber, Dominican Amber Amber is heated to change water bubbles, to discoid fractures, or to produce the "sun spangles" (flints). The amber occurrences in the Dominican Republic is not as old as the Baltic, but has much more fossil inclusions of plants and small animals and for this reason is highly appreciated by scientists and collectors alike. Dominican amber is generally not enhanced by heat and oil treatment or autoclaved. www.agrainofsand.com /Beads-Amber-179.html   (782 words)

Amber Amber from the Baltic states is older, and therefore preferred on the market, but amber from the Dominican Republic is more likely to have insect inclusions. Fortunately for new amber enthusiasts, amber from the Baltic states is more available on the market than in previous years due to the liberalization of the economies of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The amber, which was from the Lower Cretaceous period, was mined in the mountains of Lebanon south of Beirut by Aftim Acra, who has a collection of amber pieces containing 700 insects, including termites, moths, caterpillars, spiders, pseudoscorpions, and midges, which do suck blood. www.gemstone.org /gem-by-gem/english/amber.html   (787 words)

Frog in Dominican Amber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Dominican amber is renowned for both its clarity and taxonomic breadth of biological inclusions. The stomach contents consisting of several distinct insect meals of a leptodactylid frog in 23 million-year-old Dominican Amber is herein described, and is the first direct evidence of insects associated with a vertebrate during its lifetime. Though two hymenopterans (families undetermined) are observed within the amber specimen, the partial insects that comprise the stomach contents of the frog are the only ones located in close proximity to the frog. www.amber-market.com /page196.htm   (1004 words)

Dominican Republic Amber It was very soon discovered that the Dominican Republic, one of the largest islands in the Archipelago of Greater Antilles, had its own amber deposits occurring in the central mountain ranges and it was also found washed up in the beds of streams and rivers. The Dominican Republic is now recognised as a major source of amber which has come to the fore in the scientific community during the last 50 years, although its existence has been known about for centuries. The Dominican Republic occupies approximately 65% of the Eastern side of the island and Haiti the remainder.The amber is not distributed throughout the island, it is known to occur in one of the Northern Mountain ranges; the Cordillera Septentrional. www.gplatt.demon.co.uk /dominica.htm   (1430 words)

Deposits of amber Amber can be found on the beach, when huge storms have disturbed these deposits and washed the amber on the shore. The second method is used to identify the amber and its bolological relatioship.between different pieces of amber or to modern plant resins. Their total lack in domincan amber might be caused by poison in the trees as it is produced in the recent "amber trees". www.fortunecity.com /campus/geography/243/ambdepos.html   (1223 words)

Digimorph - Anolis sp. (Anolis lizard in amber) Dominican amber deposits are considered to be late Early to early Middle Miocene in age, approximately 15-20 million years old (Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee 1996). The posterior-most vertebra is exposed to the polished amber surface; the remaining portion of the fossil is completely encapsulated. Because of the exposure of an articulated vertebra on the surface of the amber, we assume the fossil was originally more complete (e.g., not preserved only as a head and neck), but that the loss of an undetermined amount of the body occurred between fossilization and curation. www.digimorph.org /specimens/Anolis_sp   (888 words)

Puerto Plata Region - Vacation Guide - The amber riviera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The Dominican Republic is renowned for having the world’s most valuable deposits of amber, also known as “transparent gold.” While amber is found in many countries, that from the northern mountains of the Dominican Republic is prized far beyond the value of its beauty, or rarity for rarity’s sake. Dominican amber’s rarest specimens are embedded with fossils such as scorpions, lizards and ants that lived up to 50 million years ago, called by anthropologists the Tertiary Period. Dominican amber then dominated the market for three decades, until the Soviet Union collapsed and the newly independent Baltic countries of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania took control of the amber mines there and began exporting in great quantities. www.puertoplataregion.com /amber-riviera.htm   (914 words)

eBay Guides - Buying Natural Amber Guide Amber is a fossilized resin that has gone through a number of changes over millions of years. The oldest amber is registered to be 345 million years old, and the oldest known amber containing an inclusion comes from approx. The amber in the Dominican Republic is not as old as the Baltic one, but has much more fossils and rare inclusions of plants and small animals. reviews.ebay.com /Buying-Natural-Amber-Guide_W0QQugidZ10000000000770445   (926 words)

Blue Amber While Baltic amber formed from hardened resin of the pine tree Pinus Succinifera, amber from the Dominican Republic originated from an extinct species of broad-leaved tropical trees Hymenaea protera of the legume family. But we would like to explain why Dominican Amber, from certain viewpoints for many, is the most interesting amber found in the world. One theory links the color in Dominican blue amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust, which was present when the resin was pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago. www.amber-market.com /page192.htm   (620 words)

Love in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Dominicans are devoted to the proliferation of tourism, boasting close to 2 million visitors a year. Amber ranges in color from pale yellow to dark brown, depending on the surrounding soil. Amber prices vary from $3 US for small earrings to $200 US for a mosquito encased in amber to several hundred dollars for large, chunky necklaces or amber set in gold. www.lovetripper.com /a.carib.dr.amber.html   (1225 words)

American Museum of Natural History Click on the different pieces of amber to find out what is captured inside and what clues it provides about this ancient ecosystem. Such a wide variety of creatures has been found in Dominican amber, for example, that scientists are able to reconstruct this ancient ecosystem with amazing intricacy. Everything in this reconstruction derives from direct evidence provided by the amber fossils or is inferred on the basis of plant-feeding forms of insects, such as fig wasps, which specifically pollinate fig trees. www.amnh.org /exhibitions/amber/index.html   (300 words)

Life in amber One Dominican amber source reported finding a butterfly with a 5 inch wing spread; this is both a large and unusual find, most butterfly specimens are no more than a 2 inch wing spread. The discoidal fissures or sun spangles found in amber are believed to be caused by droplets of trapped water and air, which form the flattened to circular shapes after heating the amber. Fossils Window to the Past Amber, which is a part of Fossils Window to the Past, from University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology. www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/life.htm   (804 words)

Larimar, amber and conch supplier directly from the Dominican Republic, including Larimar jewelry, amber jewelry, conch ... We wholesale Larimar jewelry and amber jewelry supplier directly from the mines, manufacture custom crafted larimar and amber jewelry, rough and raw amber from the Dominican mines in the Caribbean, larimar earrings, amber earrings, larimar bracelets, amber bracelests, larimar rings, amber rings, larimar chains, amber chains, amber necklaces and larimar necklaces. Our Larimar jewelry and amber jewelry are exclusive designs of Caribbean origin made from the Dominican larimar stone, Dominican Amber or larimar and amber gemstone gemstone or larimar and amber beads. Our Larimar jewelry and amber jewelry are exclusive designs of Caribbean origin made from the Dominican larimar stone, Dominican Amber or larimar and amber gemstone gemstone or larimar and amber beads and conch cabochons. www.lariamber.com   (1057 words)

Amber myths Amber was recently popularized by the book and movie, Jurassic Park, in which the DNA extracted from dinosaur blood within the mosquito, was used to reproduce dinosaurs. Amber pendants were worn to preserve chastity, and used as rosary beads or talismans against evil and dark forces. Amber was burned along with non-fossil tree resins, such as frankincense, myrrh, and copal to dispel evil spirits and fumigate worldly nuisances such as mosquitos. www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/myths.htm   (697 words)

Neotropical Amber Amber trade routes of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans crossed Europe from the Baltic Sea region, where it was found in great abundance. Dominican amber was actually first reported by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the West Indies in 1493. One hypothesis to explain the greater number of insects in Dominican amber is the copious secretion of sticky resin on the bark of the West Indian locust (or its ancestral predecessor). waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0702.htm   (5312 words)

Fossils Amber is worldwide in distribution, with different locations corresponding to distinct geological ages, but most commercially available amber is mined in the Dominican Republic and the Baltic region. A juvenile praying mantis in Dominican amber (RARE), and an unidentified Microlepidopteran (tiny moth) in Baltic amber. Curiously however, the vast majority of blue amber is completely devoid of insects or other organic materials; when present, they are usually severely crushed or washed out, offering possible testimony to the powerful geological forces involved in its creation. www.stat.wisc.edu /~ifischer/Collections/Fossils/fossils.html   (1119 words)

ISEM Research: Anolis Lizard in Dominican Amber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The irregularly shaped piece of amber containing the specimen is approximately 1.5cm in the longest axis and 1 cm in the shortest axis, enclosing a relatively complete skull, portions of the first five cervical vertebrae, some soft tissue and scales. The posterior-most preserved vertebral element is exposed to the polished surface of the amber, the remaining portion of the fossil is completely encapsulated. The amber is dark and the surface highly irregular limiting visual examination due to optical distortion and semi-opacity of the amber, therefore x-ray computed tomography was employed to facilitate description. www.smu.edu /isem/3D/3Dindex.html   (496 words)

science98-2 systematics and ecological morphology of Dominican amber anoles. Body proportions and lamella counts of both known amber fossils indicate that these lizards are trunk-crown anoles, that is, members of an ecologically and morphologically defined class of anoles specialized for life high on the trunks and in the crowns of trees. However, it was clear that the amber specimens did not conform to these ecomorphs: crown giants are much larger than all other ecomorphs and twig anoles are extreme in their short limbs and tails. biosgi.wustl.edu /~lososlab/amber.html   (756 words)

Geotimes — January 2005 — Visiting the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo is home to two amber museums, which showcase specimens of the fossilized tree sap in a dozen tints. Amber containing fossilized animals is considered the most valuable, and is certainly most interesting for those of a paleontological bent. In Jurassic Park, the amber that supplied the DNA (via mosquitoes) from which the dinosaurs were resurrected was said to have been mined in the DR. However, the oldest Dominican amber is a scant 25 million years old, far too young for its trapped mosquitoes to have sipped dinosaur blood as their last meal. www.geotimes.org /jan05/Travels0105.html   (1015 words)

Dominican Amber: florfau: Lagerstätten Catalogue: University of Bristol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Amber from the Dominican Republic has produced the largest assemblage of fossils from any tropical site. Such a wide variety of organisms have been found in Dominican amber that scientists are able to reconstruct the ancient ecosystem with amazing intricacy. All of the Dominican amber was produced from the extinct Hymenaea protera tree (Poinar, 1991). palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /palaeofiles/lagerstatten/DomAmber/fauna.html   (304 words)

Amber Finds Reveal...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Amber is bringing back a treasure-trove of riches for biologists, whether they call themselves paleoecologists (students of ancient ecology), systematists (students of taxonomy), or hyper-jargonifiers. Insects trapped in amber show what they used to look like and where particular species used to live. Thus amber can help uncover animal migration patterns, and reveal information about climate, sea level, environmental conditions, and the presence or absence of other animals and of plants. whyfiles.org /008amber/ambermain2.html   (406 words)

What is amber? Amber - Window to the Past’ refers to current research (not specified) which casts a shadow of doubt onto the Baltic Amber tree species.. Amber therefore could be a reaction to attack from external forces. For example, an insect bores a hole into a branch or twig and a stream of resin is exuded to prevent further intrusion and to repair and reinforce the damage done. www.gplatt.demon.co.uk /whatis.htm   (1056 words)

NOVA | Jewel of the Earth | Stories in the Amber (non-Flash) | PBS This is a petal from the flower of the now-extinct species of algarrobo tree whose resin was the source of all Dominican amber. Very few adult butterflies have been found in Dominican amber, and all those, including this one, belong to the metalmark family. Lizards in amber are extremely rare—so rare that a single intact specimen can bring hundreds of thousands of dollars on the collectors' market. www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/jewel/stor-nf.html   (1236 words)

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