...is the most meaningful and most studied amber. You can find it at the coasts of North Sea and Baltic Sea and in Samland in the "Blue Earth". The Baltic amber was formed in the old tertiar period approximatly 40-50 million years ago in the region of middle Sweden/Finland. At thqat time the so-called amber-forest spread itself in a wide belt from East to west towards the coast. Though its course was different from today, so that what we know as Denmark, Southsweden and Northern Germany was covered with water. Today's Poland and Norway were connected by a coastline almost matching today's Oder river. The Baltic Sea itself developed much later. This explains wha we can find baltic amber at the North Sea coast.

The succinite comes from the resin of the so-called amber pines (pinus succinifera). When the bark was injured the resin would flow from the tree, dry and harden.

The pine forests drowned about 40-50 miollion years ago, due to large climate and location changes in the swamps. Due to the rising sea level, waves and currents loosend the forest ground, washed away the the aging resin and stored it in various new places. Large amounts of amber were transported with a particularly large current to a bay reaching from Samlandcoast to the west  of Danzig. It settled and was covered with clay substrat, sand and layers of stone. The sediments solidified and became the "Blue Earth". Brown coal with enclosed resin developed and due to the pressure and missing air, it dehydrated. This process lead to the oxidation of the organic carbon molecule. With time, the amber developed from the resin. All North European amber findings can be lead back to this productive deposit in the east Baltic , especially along the "Amber Coast ".