List of types of amber
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This is a list of types of amber.
File:A huge piece of Baltic amber (9,7 kg). The piece is stored at the Natural History Museum in Berlin..jpg
A huge piece of Baltic amber (9,7 kg) - This is one of the largest pieces of Baltic amber ever found. The piece is stored at the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
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- Baltic amber - the most common amber variety, found along the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea.
- Black amber - aka Oltu stone, actually a type of jet (lignite) found in eastern Turkey.
- Blue amber - a rare coloration, most commonly is found in the Dominican Republic and highly valued by collectors.
- Burmese amber - also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous age amber up to 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The most common amber containing insect inclusions of the Cenomanian.
Copal - resinous substance in an intermediate stage of polymerization and hardening between "gummier" resins and amber.
- Dominican amber - nearly always transparent, and having a higher number of fossil inclusions than Baltic amber.*
- Mexican Amber - found mainly in Chiapas in Mexico, roughly contemporary with Miocene era Dominican amber, and produced by the extinct Hymenaea Mexicana tree, a relative of the Hymenaea Protera tree responsible for producing Dominican Amber.
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