Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2013, Nr 11, pages 49-54 Geological Nature and Parent Primary Sources of the European Placers of Amber-Succinite. Matsui, V. M. Summary:
The issues of the origin of amber have attracted human attention since ancient times. The earliest plausible information on the amber origin belongs to Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) who proved its plant nature. In the beginning of the 21st century all important stages of this long process from the resin outflow of gymnosperms, and its accumulation in the soil of the amber forest to further formation of ambersuccinite deposits in sediments of the marine basin were described by the theory which however has some points wanting clarification. Eocene–Oligocene amber forest soil in the European platform has not been discovered yet. Based on the data of analysis of the Cenozoic coal basins in Europe, the geological position and the material composition of fossil resins, and paleogeography of the seas surrounded lignite basins of Germany, Poland, Byelorussia and Ukraine in the Eocene to Early Oligocene, H. Lebed’ and V. Matsui came to conclusion that the primary source of amber–succinite in European deposits could be eroded layers of bitum-containing brown coal of buchak suite, and its stratigraphic analogues. In the light of the proposed conception, the bituminous brown coal formation is regarded as an indigenous origin of fossil resins and amber-succinite. Keywords:
amber-succinite, brown coal, Eocene–Oligocene. Address:
Institute of Geological Sciences of NAS of Ukraine, O. Gonchar St. 55b, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine; e-mail: v_matsui@ukr.net summary ukr., summary ros., summary eng, pdf return
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