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IN 1876, Sir John Murray1 published observations on magnetic spherules extracted from deep-sea sediments collected by the Challenger Expedition. Together with Renard2, he later described them more fully and gave strong reasons for assuming them to have a cosmic origin. Very few observations have since then been published on these spherules. The two most recent publications are by Bruun, Langer and Pauly3 describing magnetic particles collected from the sediment surface by the Galathea Expedition, and by Laevastu and Mellis4, working in Göteborg, who extracted, counted and measured black spherules from one ordinary long core from the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition.
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FREDRIKSSON, K. Cosmic Spherules in Deep-Sea Sediments. Nature 177, 32–33 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177032a0
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