Amber tour. safari
Description:
Scientists have reliably established: blue Caribbean amber is a product of the vital activity of the extinct Hymenaea protera trees (modern ceratonia is a relative of the extinct family). These plants belong to legumes, and fossilized resinous discharge was formed as a result of natural disasters that occurred from twenty to forty million years ago.
Due to geological accident, the rocks surrounding the placers of Dominican amber in the thickness of the soil are represented including kaolin, otherwise called “blue clay”. In the philistine environment, there is an opinion that the blue light of Dominican amber is a consequence of banal contamination with minerals from sedimentary rocks. That thought is wrong.
The oily blue light produced by transparent retinite (retinite is a mineralogical term for Dominican blue amber) is formed as a result of the refraction of light reflected by the mineral. As it turned out, the presence in the composition of the fossilized carob tree resin of the substance “perylene” (relating to cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) causes a remarkable feature of the stone.