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» 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 with Inclusions
Provides information, photographs and articles on amber which contains beautifully preserved plant-structures and fossilized small creatures. http://amberwithinclusions.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/ » 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/ » Identifying True Amber (Succinite)
Article by Garry Platt describing the tests that can be done to differentiate between true amber and fakes. http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/trueamber.shtml » New Jersey has Treasure Trove of Amber
Article by Jeff Poling about New Jersey amber. http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/misc/amber.htm » 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 » 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/ » 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 This category needs an editor
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