Biogenic nanomagnetite in the Lebedinskii deposit: Evidence of biochemical processes in the origin of banded iron formation of KMA
Abstract
For the first time, biogenic nanomagnetite has been detected in banded iron formation of the Lebedinskii deposit of the KMA and has been demonstrated to be a primary mineral. This finding may imply a key role of metabolic processes in primary deposition of divalent iron with formation of trivalent iron minerals, the precursors of banded iron formation of the KMA.
- Publication:
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Doklady Earth Sciences
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S1028334X17110101
- Bibcode:
- 2017DokES.477.1316B