Baltic Amber Earrings

1. Hydrocarbons in the blue amber shift the suns ultraviolet light down in frequency, resulting in the glow of blue amber.
2. Blue amber emits a very agreeable smell (aromatic molecules), which is different from regular amber when it is being cut and polished.
3. Among these outcrops, 20 have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.
4. It appears, however, to have been partly derived from older Eocene deposits and it occurs also as a derivative phase in later formations, such as glacial drift.
5. On the contrary, the Dominican red and yellow amber varieties have a much weaker and featureless emission, although still do have a certain fluorescence.