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Scorpion in amber - Member Collections - The Fossil Forum Got a cool one for you guys: a decent sized scorpion in amber from Burma Probably about 100 million years old The most interesting part to me is the tail sort of curves down 90 degrees perpendicular to the body (you can see it in the last pic side view) and that kind of 3D preservation is rare
Melting Amber - Questions Answers - The Fossil Forum Given enough pressure you can even force small amber granules to bond together at temperatures below the softening point There is a modification of the above, whereby single but irregular pieces of heat-softened natural amber are simply squashed into moulds to forcefully make them a more useful shape
Amber fossils and authenticity - The Fossil Forum Hi there! I wanted to ask you for your opinion on this amber fossil Does it seems genuine to you? Would you have any recommendations what to look out for? And how common the fake amber fossils actually are? I am quite new to this, I was an enthusiastic fossil hunter, usually searching in slate d
Wisconsin amber? - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Rather than amber, this looks more like botryoidal chalcedony First, this is an interesting specimen, but it is hard to get to a good ID with pictures only I would definitely like to look at it under a microscope to see if there is any evidence of wood cell structure
Sumatran Blue Amber - Member Collections - The Fossil Forum this just arrived in the mail today and i thought i'd show you guys, especially since sumatran amber is a new dicovery this is a 10 1 gram semi rough piece of Blue amber from sumatra, Indonesia, and is early miocene in age it has a small window polished into it but other than that, it is a roug
Is this amber? - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Amber actually flouresces in different colors depending on where it’s from the most common is a milky blue green but there are other colors including red! as for experience I have handled and checked a couple thousand pieces in my life (a friend used to have a rock shop) and have over 300 pieces with inclusions in my personal collection
Burmite amber - Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications - The . . . Amber floats in saltwater amber should feel very light, and shouldn’t be colder (or hotter) than room temperature If if you burn a piece of amber, it will smell like pine resin, (don’t try it on a good specimen) Some people even say that simply with the sun’s heat on a hot summer day will do the job
Remove Glue From Amber? - General Discussion - The Fossil Forum Exposing amber to any kind of chemicals is generally a bad idea Even if the amber is old enough and hard enough (ie true amber) to resist acetone, trace amounts of other chemicals in proprietary nail polish removers may promote oxidative crazing and discolouration in the long term
Amber with a lot going on here…where to start. Amber would be very light in weight feel almost warm to the touch Some of the surface fractures (the 1 2 moon shapes) look like impact fractures you would see in the surface of agates, which this could very well be An agate would have a microscopic crystalline structure that wouldn't be visible with a magnifying glass