Amber is sap from a tree that has hardened and when an insect gets stuck in it, the sap covers it completely over a long period of time. It preserves the insect because there is nothing in the amber that acts as a decomposer.
Amber is fossilized tree resin. Fresh tree resin is thick and sticky and insects and small animals can get stuck to it and trapped. When stuck they can then be covered by more resin leaking form the tree and entombed in it. If this resin is then buried and fossilized it turns into amber and this amber retains the entombed animals.
The insect is engulfed in liquid tree sap, which then dries becoming solid then fossilizes over millions of years to become amber.
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Fossils can be preserved in either ice or snow, also can be preserved in mud, coal, sand, silt.
because they most likely came from different areas. so they didn't have the same type of climate. another possibility is that amber traps only small animals or insects it seems
Preserved remains are formed when the body of an organism is preserved and protected from decay through freezing, being trapped in tar, sap from a tree hardens around the body, or the body is put in a bog. (Like a peat bog.)
Not necessarily. An amethyst is a purple quartz rock. So they're technically a metamorphic rock but can be a part of many sedimentary rocks. For example you can have quartz sand that has formed into a sandstone.
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Fossilized insects preserved in amber are actually quite rare. Insects preserved in amber are most often found near river beds and wooded areas.
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Amber is lithified tree sap. Small insects and animals can be preserved but not fossilised in amber.
Freezing organisms can help preserve them because if it is frozen, then bacteria can't eat it. Scientists have also found animals that have been preserved through freezing. Insects can be preserved in amber because before it hardens, it is a sticky substance where the insects can get stuck in. So, insects found in amber are usually perfectly preserved. The unfortunate animals that were preserved in the tar was the cause of going to drink water. As that animal gets stuck, another would try to go and eat it which ends up with both animals getting preserved in the tar. (ha,ha)
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The entire organisms are preserved.
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