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Magnetite is the magnetic mineral most prominent as a remanence carrier in sediments. Not surprisingly, the discovery of a magnetic bacterium (Blakemore, 1975) caught the attention of researchers like Kirschvink and Lowenstam (1979) who recognized its importance to the field of paleomagnetics. If these microscopic magnetite makers were present in large numbers in their environment, they might supply a significant quantity of finegrained magnetite to the sediments. Furthermore, as they are known in both marine and nonmarine environments (Moench and Konetzka, 1978), and have been found in both the northern and southern hemispheres and at the equator (Kirschvink, 1980; Frankel et al., 1981), they are potentially a widely distributed source.
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Demitrack, A. (1985). A Search for Bacterial Magnetite in the Sediments of Eel Marsh, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In: Kirschvink, J.L., Jones, D.S., MacFadden, B.J. (eds) Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Organisms. Topics in Geobiology, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0313-8_35
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