Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2013, Nr 11, pages 97-102 Amber and Fossil Resins in the Collection of the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Belichenko, E. P. Summary:
Scientific collection of amber and fossil resins in the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences numbers more than 29,500 samples and is one of the biggest collections of the fossil resins in the world. Six collections — organic inclusions in amber, natural forms of fossil resins, types of Baltic amber, succinate of Poland and other regions, fossil resins of the world, and amber imitations form its basis. The author gave the characteristic of the collections of amber and fossil resins, their brief description, and presented the information on the history of their formation. The present exposition of the Museum of the Earth “Amber — from liquid resin to ornamental art” tells about the origin of amber, formation of the amber-succinate deposits of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, German, development of processing and usage of amber in arts and crufts. For the first time the unique collection of the fossil resins of the world is presented. Keywords:
amber, succinite, fossil resin, copal, collection, exposition. Address:
State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine, Degtyarivska St. 38–44, Kyiv, 04119 Ukraine; е-mail: lgems@mail.ru summary ukr., summary ros., summary eng, pdf return
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