Enhanced magnetization of the Marlboro Clay as a product of soil pyrogenesis at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary?

DV Kent, L Lanci, H Wang, JD Wright - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The kaolinite-rich Marlboro Clay was deposited on the inner shelf in the Salisbury
Embayment of the US Atlantic margin at the onset of the carbon isotope excursion marking …

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 …

An Appalachian Amazon? Magnetofossil evidence for the development of a tropical river‐like system in the mid‐Atlantic United States during the Paleocene‐Eocene …

RE Kopp, D Schumann, TD Raub… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
On the mid‐Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States, Paleocene sands and silts are
replaced during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) by the kaolinite‐rich …

Chemical remagnetization and clay diagenesis: testing the hypothesis in the Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of northwestern Montana

JD Gill, RD Elmore, MH Engel - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A …, 2002 - Elsevier
Although the migration of fluids is a likely agent of remagnetization for some chemical
remanent magnetizations (CRMs), widespread CRMs, which occur in rocks that have not …

Abundant bacterial magnetite occurrence in oxic red clay

T Yamazaki, T Shimono - Geology, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) produce chains of intracellular magnetite and/or greigite
crystals and respond to an ambient magnetic field. MTB are considered to be …

Gigantism in unique biogenic magnetite at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

D Schumann, TD Raub, RE Kopp… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
We report the discovery of exceptionally large biogenic magnetite crystals in clay-rich
sediments spanning the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in a borehole at …

Ubiquitous magnetite

B Maher - Nature Geoscience, 2024 - nature.com
In the style of a fiendishly tricky quiz in a weekend newspaper, what links: monsoonal
rainfall; the 1827 wreck of the Hope off the Tasmanian coast; vehicle brake pads; mollusc …

Asteroid impact vs. Deccan eruptions: The origin of low magnetic susceptibility beds below the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary revisited

A Abrajevitch, E Font, F Florindo, AP Roberts - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The respective roles of an asteroid impact and Deccan Traps eruptions in biotic changes at
the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary are still debated. In many shallow marine …

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 …

Chains, clumps, and strings: Magnetofossil taphonomy with ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy

RE Kopp, BP Weiss, AC Maloof, H Vali, CZ Nash… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Magnetotactic bacteria produce intracellular crystals of magnetite or greigite, the properties
of which have been shaped by evolution to maximize the magnetic moment per atom of iron …