Amber, Resinite, and Fossil Resins

Content: Biology of amber-producing trees : focus on case studies of Hymenaea and Agathis / Jean H. Langenheim --
Stable isotope composition of amber / Arie Nissenbaum and Dan Yakir --
Resin-derived hydrocarbons in fresh and fossil dammar resins and Miocene rocks and oils in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia / Scott A. Stout --
Pyrolytic and spectroscopic studies of the diagenetic alteration of resinites / Tatsushi Murae, Shuji Shimokawa, and A. Aihara --
Maturation of class Ib (polylabdanoid) resinites / David J. Clifford and Patrick G. Hatcher --
New evidence concerning the structure, composition, and maturation of class I (polylabdanoid) resinites / Ken B. Anderson --
Gedanite and gedano-succinite / Edith C. Stout, Curt W. Beck, and Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz --
Unusual resin chemistry from Upper Carboniferous pteridosperm resin rodlets / P.F. van Bergen, M.E. Collinson, A.C. Scott, and J.W. de Leeuw --
Analysis of fossil resins from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic / Ken B. Anderson and Ben A. LePage --
Resin from Africa and South America : criteria for distinguishing between fossilized and recent resin based on NMR spectroscopy / Joseph B. Lambert, Suzanne C. Johnson, and George O. Poinar, Jr. --
The age of Dominican amber / David A. Grimaldi --
The petrology of resinite in American coals / John C. Crelling --
Trace amino acid composition of natural resins : elucidating the nature of resinous artists' materials / S.M. Halpine --
Amino acids in the amber matrix and in entombed insects / Xueyun S. Wang, Hendrik N. Poinar, George O. Poinar, Jr., and Jeffrey L. Bada --
Dammar resin : a chemical model for reactions of Utah resinite / Richard Dutta and Harold H. Schobert --
Recovery and characterization of macroscopic fossil resins from Western coals / Q. Yu, L. Li, and J.D. Miller.