Identification of magnetic Fe-Ti oxides in marine sediments by electron backscatter diffraction in scanning electron microscopy

C Franke, GM Pennock, MR Drury… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
In paleomagnetic and environmental magnetic studies the magnetomineralogical
identification is usually based on a set of rock magnetic parameters, complemented by …

Magnetofossils, the magnetization of sediments, and the evolution of magnetite biomineralization

SBR Chang, JL Kirschvink - … and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 17, p …, 1989 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Magnetite (Fe, O) is one of the most stable carriers of natural remanent magnetization (NRM)
in sedimentary rocks, and paleomagnetic studies of magnetite-bearing sediments, such as …

Exsolved magnetite inclusions in silicates: Features determining their remanence behavior

JM Feinberg, GR Scott, PR Renne, HR Wenk - Geology, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Submicroscopic, needle-shaped titanomagnetite inclusions exsolved in silicate minerals
commonly occur in mafic intrusive rocks and are protected from alteration by their silicate …

Big discovery for biogenic magnetite

PC Lippert - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
One of the most significant characteristics of the Anthro-pocene (the present age of geologic
time) is the rate at which humans are perturbing the global carbon cycle. The potency of …

Biogenic and lithogenic magnetic minerals in Atlantic and Pacific deep sea sediments and their paleomagnetic significance

H Vali, T Von Dobeneck, G Amarantidis, O Förster… - Geologische …, 1989 - Springer
The carrier of the natural magnetization of deep sea sediments was characterized by
mineralogical, electron microscopic, and rock magnetic investigations. Magnetic single …

Bullet‐shaped magnetite biomineralization within a magnetotactic Deltaproteobacterium: implications for magnetofossil identification

J Li, N Menguy, AP Roberts, L Gu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetite produced by magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) provides stable paleomagnetic signals
because it occurs as natural single‐domain magnetic nanocrystals. MTB can also provide …

Rock magnetic criteria for the detection of biogenic magnetite

BM Moskowitz, RB Frankel, DA Bazylinski - Earth and Planetary Science …, 1993 - Elsevier
We report results on the magnetic properties of magnetites produced by magnetotactic and
dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria. Magnetotactic bacterial (MTB) strains MS1, MV1 and …

Quantitative extraction and analysis of carriers of magnetization in sediments

MW Hounslow, BA Maher - Geophysical Journal International, 1996 - academic.oup.com
We have applied an integrated procedure for quantitative magnetic mineral extraction,
based on the separation method of Petersen, von Dobeneck & Vali (1986), to a range of …

In situ magnetic identification of giant, needle-shaped magnetofossils in Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments

CL Wagner, R Egli, I Lascu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Near-shore marine sediments deposited during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
at Wilson Lake, NJ, contain abundant conventional and giant magnetofossils. We find that …

Magnetic minerals in three Asian rivers draining into the South China Sea: Pearl, Red, and Mekong rivers

C Kissel, Z Liu, J Li, C Wandres - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The use of the marine sedimentary magnetic properties, as tracers for changes in
precipitation rate and in oceanic water masses transport and exchanges, implies to identify …