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BALTIC AMBER INCLUSIONS

Most inclusions are found in the clear flaky amber. Such amber formatted, when liquid
Resins constantly soaked frum the tree wounds. Insects or plant fragments were cought
Into the older resin and newly exuded layer covered them on the top.
The Palanga Amber museum has one of the biggest collections of fossiliferous amber in the world (14 478 pieces).

The biggest collections of Baltic amber are:

British Museum of Natural History, London
Museum of the Earth, Warsaw
Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg

Paleontology Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge
The Amber Museum, Palanga
Institute for Geology and Paleontology, Goettingen
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen