| The Birth of Amber |
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This river was called the Eridanus and carried with it huge amounts of amber-tree trunks that settled in the delta of the river and formed deposits of amber. But that's not the end of the journey of amber, it is true the vast majority remained in the area of the delta sambijskiej but small amounts have been moved much further, and now you can find single specimens of amber in almost all Polish. Baltic amber has about 40 million years, so the myths about the DNA code contained on this resin, we can confidently put the cartoons. Sam amber is a resin similar to that which we can observe the "skaleczonych" trees just a little bit older (40 million years difference is not much life from the perspective of the Earth). Despite the fact that man knows the amber from ancient times, this aggregate is still a lot of secrets are closely guarded. Although you can often find pieces of amber with embedded fragments of the tree that gave him life it still do not know what kind of tree was the source of this precious stone. The secret is the reason for the rich "bleeding" trees, perhaps in the prehistoric forest lived a mysterious beast that for some reason okaleczało trees causing them to release abundant resin?. Of course, where the science does not meet our imagination and looks at mythology, people have tried to explain the origin of amber. One of the myths told about the mysterious island Serita which was to be "woody species of cedar, amber, from which flowed onto the rocks." Only in the nineteenth century German botanists have identified a group of trees that could produce resins of Pinus succinifera. However, this argument was undermined by the Polish palaeobotanist M. Kostyniuka in 1961, who described the group of trees that spring was Aghatis australis amber, which today are covered with Australia and New Zealand. Kostyniuk built his theory on the basis of chemical composition of the resin. But you can not say unequivocally that the assertion is true, because the research is proving the old theory of the German. Currently, ongoing studies and their results provide arguments against a pine tree, well, scientists still do not know exactly what the tree gave birth to amber and probably not soon prove with certainty that it is one and not another group of trees. We do not know exactly how was this precious resin, but we were brought from as far north in areas which currently is extracted. Long ago, our region looked very different on the Polish coast of the present had its mouth of a mighty river which was the source in what is now Scandinavia, and flowed right through the measure of today's Baltic Sea. This river was called the Eridanus and carried with it huge amounts of amber-tree trunks that settled in the delta of the river and formed deposits of amber. But that's not the end of the journey of amber, it is true the vast majority remained in the area of the delta sambijskiej but small amounts have been moved much further, and now you can find single specimens of amber in almost all Polish. |