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Bacterial production of magnetite (Fe3O4) (Frankel et al., 1979) contributes significantly to the natural remanent magnetism of deep-sea and other sediments (Kirschvink et al., 1984; Stolz et al., 1986). Accurate magnetostratigraphy, reconstruction of past magnetic field behavior and extraction of environmental information from the sedimentary record depend on an understanding of the biology of deep-sea magnetic bacteria. Although magnetofossils (Kirschvink et al., 1984) have been found in deep-sea sediments, there have been no reports of the recovery of magnetic bacteria from the deep ocean.
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Inoue, K., Petermann, H. (1998). Molecular Detection of Magnetic Bacteria in Deep-Sea Sediments. In: Gal, Y.L., Halvorson, H.O. (eds) New Developments in Marine Biotechnology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5983-9_43
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