Amber is distinguished as a pot for jewelry and prehistoric remains worldwide, with ancient water, air bubbles, plants, insects or even with rare samples Birds,
Typically, the amber tree is formed in millions of years in the form of a resin fossil, but peliytologists produce fossils such as amber from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique can help manifest the biochemicals of the amber because it is formed, a process that will otherwise be hidden in the fog of prehistics.
Published on Monday Journal scientific reportThe results of the fast-facilitation experiment are similar to the food consumed in a pressure cooker. “It is similar to an instapot,” said Ivan power, a research colleague at the Field Museum in Chicago.
The recipe for synthetic amber began with a pine resin from the Chicago botanical garden. Dr. Power and their co-author, Thomas Kaye, an independent fossilist, placed a half-inch sediment disc, which was embedded in a device, which was made using a medical pill compressor, air canters, and other dirty parts.
From both heating and pressure on the samples, researchers were trying to simulate diageniasis, at slow, integrated into the sediment rock before the need for wet physical and chemical changes.
“Diagenosis is the ultimate obstruction that you need to pass to become a fossil,” Dr. Power said. “It is like the last boss.”
Some samples produced by the researchers were incomplete, but some echoes of the echoes, such as dark colors, fracture lines, dehydration and increased glow.
Both also realized that they had started with the wrong family of the pine tree. The most frequently studied Amber Skydopies in Pelionctology, which is a group of trees Only living relatives are Japanese umbrella pine.
Maria McAnamara, a fossilist at the University College Cork in Ireland, who was not involved in the study, said that future experiments should test additional plant types.
“We really want to get a handle, which fasts polymerizes,” he said. He also stated that a chemical analysis of quick amber was necessary to know how close it is – or not – it was for real goods. “Tree resin has survived, but we need a proper, complete chemical characteristic,” he said.
For all the limits of study, Dr. McAcanamara said that simulated philosophy was an important research field. Some fossilists have rebuilt Bone decay To detect microbial effects. In his laboratory, researchers have “Thermal mature ”samples To check the protection of biological molecules under the heat.
Without such simulation, “We are just relying on fossil records,” he said. “Experiments help us tell the facts from the story and determine what extent the fossil record is lying.”
Dr. Power has tried other simulation. In 2018, he buried A finch To see in wet sediment to see how it will narrow. It was dirty and unsuccessful. But after working with Mr. Kaye on the pressure-cooker device, he got more success in studying the first stages of philization. Leaves, wings and lizard legsWith those samples, keratin in a wing, for example, far, left a dark melanin -like impression similar to a fossil feather. (In conferences, Dr. Paul said, he prefers to test other fossilists to see a visible difference between a simulant and a real fossil.)
In future amber experiments, Dr. The purpose of power is to embed insects, wings or plants in the resin. One reason can prove to be useful that real samples are valuable – some business for thousands of dollars – disabled disastrous analysis. “A protected insect in synthetic amber will not be precious, as it will be lab-made,” Dr. Power said.
Researchers have planned to customize their techniques for pressure-cooking organic content and follow geological weathering for pressure-cooking organic content. This will more really hold more stages of fossils.
Looking forward, experimental philization technology may also allow scientists to detect future fossils, Dr. Power said. How would anthropocene life be fossils? What will happen to tissue or bone with microplastic or industrial heavy metals?
We will not be millions of years from now to find out. But with a pressure-cuker device, we can come closer.
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