Baltic Sea minerals
The sea minerals are found in the sea. At the sea bottom you can find gravel, glauconite,
phosphate, chalk. The beach and shallow area formed of heavy minerals - garnet Ilmenite
and magnetite - rubble, but they have no practical significance. Oil currently operates a
number of Lithuanian seaside surroundings, but it is believed that more bodies are buried
naftingesni underwater.
Amber - the greatest asset in the Baltic
Amber - is fossilized tree resin . Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a
healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry.
Gravel - loose sedimentary rock composed of gravel and sand .
Gravel used in construction for concrete production, road construction, drainage works.
It may also be used as a decorative material.
Glauconite - Class of silicate mineral.
Phosphorite - rock, which is made of superphosphate.
phosphorite is used in construction .
Chalk - sedimentary rock, a soft porous white limestone variety,
composed of mineral calcite.
Chalk is used for building materials industry.
The main tools used in school.
Granite - magmatic rock formed from magma stiff.
Granite stone used in construction.
Ideal for both building interiors and exteriors.
Oil
Lithuanian territory is part of oily Baltic region. Oil bodies were found west of the
country.
Nowadays, oil is extracted from the Earth's crust mainly drilling. Oil - an important
source of energy, it is the main raw material for petrochemical industry, production of
gasoline, heating oil, kerosene, lubricants, asphalt, petroleum jelly and so on.