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.