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Interesting observations illustrating the process of transformation of some minerals of banded iron formations (BIF) were made while studying the Early Proterozoic jaspilites of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA). Examples showing the process of siderite transformation into iron oxides/hydroxides by iron-oxidizing bacteria are given.
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The authors thank everyone who helped with this study, for discussion of the results and for valuable advice, especially E.A. Zhegallo, A.Yu. Rozanov, A.D. Slukin, and G.T. Ushatinskaya, as well as N. A. Alfimova, S. B. Felitsyn and employees of the Chernyshev Central Scientific Geological and Prospecting Museum (St. Petersburg) for providing materials.
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This study was supported by Program no. 17 of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (“The Evolution of the Organic World. The Role and Influence of Planetary Processes”, subprogram I “Development of Life and Biosphere Processes”) and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-04-00324).
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Astafieva, M.M., Zaitseva, L.V. Bacterial-Paleontological Study of Siderite Transformation in the Early Proterozoic Jaspilites of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. Paleontol. J. 54, 922–929 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030120080031
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