ACADEMICIAN P.A. TUTKOVSKY ABOUT GENESIS OF AMBER

• Datum: 2017
• 1. Verfasser: Matsui, V.M.
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: Russisch
• Veröffentlicht: Institute of Geological Sciences, NAS of Ukraine 2017
• Schlagworte: fossil resins; amber; brown coal; amber-succinite; placers; deposits
• Online Zugang: http://geojournal.igs-nas.org.ua/article/view/99669
• Назва журналу: Geological journal

 Data about origin, properties, use, trade and findings of amber in Ukraine were presented in 1893 by P.A. Tutkovsky in his popular book The South-Western Land (essays in the natural history and geography) [Тутковський, 1893]. The idea of direct relation between formation of amber and Eocene brown coal in the Dnieper Brown Coal Basin was first advanced in this work. In the scientist’s opinion almost the same trees, which excreted resin that was later transformed into amber, have also formed the brown coal. The author’s idea was further developed in Ukraine only in the beginning of the current century in substantiation of the theory of bituminous brown coal origin of amber-succinite. This theory opens real potentialities for revealing the native primary sources of amber-succinite placers of the first intermediate collectors for the purpose of scientifically grounded prediction of industrial deposits. In contrast to most kind of placers of valuable mineral concentrations, unfortunately, the geological nature, genetic type and spatial position of the native primary source of amber placers has not been completely established in geology of fossil resins till now. Since this very important problem of the geology of placers is not still solved, this limits the potentialities of prediction of placer deposits because we have not established concrete geological objects which served for formation of the richest placers of the most precious variety of fossil resins – amber-succinite in the Baltic countries, Belarus and Ukraine.