BIOMAGNETICS

John A. Matthews

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BIOMAGNETICS

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John A. Matthews
In:Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n426
Subject:Environmental Sciences (general), Environmental Technology, Policy & Management

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Organisms may contain intracellular fine-grained magnetite or greigite, which they use to sense geomagnetic field lines. Magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria are used to characterise bacterial and other biogenic magnetite.

[See alsogeomagnetism, palaeomagnetism]

U. BarbaraWohlfarthStockholm University

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DunloppDJ and ÖzdemirÖ (1997) Rock magnetism: Fundamentals and frontiers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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