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 …

Discovery of giant magnetofossils within and outside of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the North Atlantic

P Xue, L Chang, Z Pei, RJ Harrison - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Giant magnetofossils have exceptionally large grain sizes and peculiar morphologies
compared to conventional biogenic magnetite nanoparticles. The origin of these unusual …

Evidence for abundant isolated magnetic nanoparticles at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary

H Wang, DV Kent, MJ Jackson - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
New rock magnetic results (thermal fluctuation tomography, high-resolution first-order
reversal curves and low temperature measurements) for samples from the Paleocene …

Discovery of late Quaternary giant magnetofossils in the Bay of Bengal

N Kadam, F Badesab, I Lascu, CL Wagner… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Unusually large and enigmatic giant magnetofossils are well-documented in sediments
deposited during and surrounding climatic events such as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal …

Diversification of iron‐biomineralizing organisms during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from quantitative unmixing of magnetic signatures of …

CL Wagner, I Lascu, PC Lippert, R Egli… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional magnetofossils represent magnetic mineral remains of magnetotactic bacteria.
Giant magnetofossils have no known modern analog. Both conventional and giant …

Magnetofossil abundance and diversity as paleoenvironmental proxies: a case study from southwest Iberian margin sediments

K He, Y Pan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is still contentious how the abundance and diversity of magnetofossils reflect varying
paleoenvironmental conditions. Here, we apply rock magnetic methods and transmission …

Characterizing magnetofossils from first‐order reversal curve (FORC) central ridge signatures

D Heslop, AP Roberts, L Chang - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The central ridge structure of a first‐order reversal curve (FORC) distribution is indicative of
uniaxial noninteracting single domain magnetic particles, which provides the opportunity to …

Magnetofossil spike during the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum: Ferromagnetic resonance, rock magnetic, and electron microscopy evidence from Ancora, New …

RE Kopp, TD Raub, D Schumann, H Vali… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Previous workers identified a magnetically anomalous clay layer deposited on the northern
United States Atlantic Coastal Plain during the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum …

Combined use of magnetometry and spectroscopy for identifying magnetofossils in sediments

J Kind, AU Gehring, M Winklhofer… - Geochemistry …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of the mineral remains of magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), known as
magnetofossils, is of particular interest because their occurrence can be used for …

Quantified abundance of magnetofossils at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary from synchrotron-based transmission X-ray microscopy

H Wang, J Wang, YK Chen-Wiegart… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The Paleocene–Eocene boundary (∼ 55.8 million years ago) is marked by an abrupt
negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE) that coincides with an oxygen isotope decrease …