There are a lot of questions about the formation of amber. The fact that this is the resin of ancient trees is understandable. But how could it have formed in such a volume? Under normal conditions, resin does not run from undamaged trees in such quantities. So they were damaged at once. Moreover, they are not broken at the root, tk. resin does not run from a dead tree either. Though…
Resin outlets in the steam room, in the bath. In places where the wood is heated, the resin becomes liquid and flows out - from the knots and resinous structure.
It turns out that the ancient broken forest (most likely it happened all at once over a large area) has heated up? Moreover, it heated up to 80-100 gr. and higher. Air or water heated the destroyed forest? I think water. To do this, just look at how amber is mined:
Amber quarries in the Kaliningrad region. Legal and illegal. Amber is found in layers of sand. But looking at such photographs of prey, I did not see a single ancient tree. Perhaps hot water came out of the ground, carrying out sand and clay, washing away ancient forests. It is possible that this slurry had a temperature above 100 grams. In this superheated water-mud mass, the resin instantly liquefied and came out of the trunks.
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But this model does not answer the question of the existence of insects, frogs, beetles, spiders, branches and flowers in amber.
The insects were not boiled in boiling water, but caught in amber. It seems that liquid resin flowed like a river and all these living organisms got into it. Or they were floating in boiling water, and the dripping resin was drawn into its volume as a more viscous structure.
By the way, the fact that only mammoth bones are found in temperate latitudes speaks about the possible outlets of hot water masses from the bowels. There is no soft tissue or wool. And in the permafrost they already find carcasses. Boiling water boiled the carcasses until the soft organic matter was completely decomposed.
A very large volume of amber was formed. It's hard to say, but probably millions of tons. He is constantly carried to the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Dominican blue amber. One of a kind. It is only mined there. Perhaps this is an ancient non-coniferous resin. Was the disaster in more than one place?
I have another version. In those days, when a large-scale catastrophe occurred, and this was in historical time, there was a large-scale collection of resin, resin:
Before the collapse of the USSR in Siberia, it was a trade in many settlements. Various insects fell into the resin. And this forest plantation was immediately covered with a flood. The trees were blown away, and the resin was scattered over the area and mixed with streams of water and sand.
Author: sibved