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Baltic Amber
Amber is the fossilized resin of prehistoric conifer trees. A wide variety of small creatures
were captured in the sticky sap and faithfully preserved. The Baltic Sea region is the world's
largest producer of amber which occurs in glauconitic 'Blue Earth' deposits in Poland and
Kaliningrad, Russia. Amber is also scattered by the sea and can be found from England
to Estonia. This amber apparently originated in forests in Scandinavia and is 40 to 50 million
years old (Eocene). The mines are located on secondary deposits formed when the amber
was washed downstream by rivers and deposited in deltas on the then existent Tethys Sea.
Some of these pieces are from a mine in Kaliningrad called Plyazheviy, which translates to
'beach mine'. That mine was flooded in 2001. Another mine, Primorskoe, currently produces
amber. Both mines are developed on the Yantarny deposit, formerly known as Palmnicken.
An excellent website on amber is Gary Platt's Amber Home.
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BA003
Crane fly, Eocene
Order Diptera, Family Limoniidae
Plyazheviy, Kaliningrad, Russia
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Crane fly in amber from northern Europe. Upper Eocene (45 - 50 million yrs) in age
Specimen size - approx 2.3 cm. X 1.8 cm. X .5 cm.
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