Jurassic Amber in Lebanon

作     者：Dany AZAR Raymond GEZE Antoine EL-SAMRANI Jacaueline MAALOULY André NEL 

作者机构：Department of Natural SciencesFaculty of Sciences ⅡLebanese UniversityFanarLebanon Museum National d'Histoire NaturelleParisFrance 

出 版 物：《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》 (地质学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第84卷第4期

页      面：977-983页

核心收录：

学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 

基　　金：the project"The Study of the Fossil Insects and their Outcrops in Lebanon:Geology of the Outcrops-Historical and Biodiversity Evolution" which received a grant by the Lebanese University(to DA and RG) 

主　　题：amber Lebanon Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian infrared spectrum 

摘      要：Reports of amber predating the Lower Cretaceous are unusual and scarce; they mostly refer to amber pieces of millimetric dimension. In the present study, we report the discovery of 10 new outcrops of Jurassic amber in Lebanon. Some of these had large centimetric-sized pieces of amber. The new localities are described, amber is characterized, and its infrared spectra given. Although the new Jurassic amber yielded to date no more than fungal inclusions, this material is significant and promising. The discovery, of several Jurassic outcrops provides crucial information on the prevailing paleoenvironment of that time.