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Description: | Mineral specimen of Amber associated with Amber. Collected from Russia. Collected by William Hutton.
Amber is fossilised pine-tree resin. It is usually cloudy. A lot of the clear amber that is used in jewellery has been boiled in rape-seed oil to clarify it. Amber is typically around 50 million years old. It is found on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and in several European countries. In the Uk, it is found on the Norfolk coast.
The specimen was found in Russia.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | William Classification: Amber Hutton | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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