How was amber made?

Answer 1

Amber is fossilized Tree resin Ranging from 30-90 million years old.Gemmologists call Amber Mineralogists call it succinite.
Amber oozed out of ancient trees catching flora and fauna on the way."Amber is the fossilized resin of ancient trees which forms through a natural polymerization of the original organic compounds".
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/amber.htm

Paleontologists and Geologists are interested in the fossil evidence of its trapped contents inscect plant life etc

Answer 2

Amber is made of Thick sap from trees that dried adn hardened and fossilized over millions of years

Answer 3

Tree sap that seeped out of a tree and fossilized over hundreds of years. Often prehistoric insects are found encased in amber.

Answer 4

amber is a semi-precious stone made of fossilized tree resin. i don`t know about the manufactured amber, but it occurs naturally in northern poland, lithuania by the baltic sea and in switzerland. the color is anything from orange, golden brown for birch amber, to dark blue, if its from one of the caribbean countries. everything depends on the fossil conditions and the trees which is comes from.

Answer 5

millions of years ago (40-120 mill)when the trees got "cut" in their barks due to natural causes....the resin or gum that came out .....dried up later to form amber...the drying took some time and during the process pollens ,air and even insects were entrapped in the gum/resin and thus we find ancient insects in amber....

Answer 6

its dried tree sap as i understand it.