Banfield,J.F. and Nealson,K.H. (Eds.)(1997): Geomicrobiology: Interactions between microbes and minerals. Reviews in Mineralogy, 35, 1-448.

Introduction
Methods
　Lab studies
　Field studies
Mechanisms
　Physical disaggregation
　Soil stabilization
　Inorganic acids
　Organic acids
　　Oxalate
　Lichen acids
　Siderophores
　Polysaccharides
　Proteins
　Nutrient adsorption
Mineral weathering studies
　Quartz
　Feldspars
　Micas
　Chain silicates
Biogeochemical weathering over time
Suggestions for further research

『Conclusion
　These are good times to be a geomicrobiologist! A remarkable confluence of interdisciplinary interest and techniques promises to exponentially increase our understanding of the timeless dance between the physical and the biological world in which we live. Consider the following short list of very recent discoveries:

• Bacteria have been found living up to 4 kilometers beneath the Earth's surface (Fredrickson and Onstott 1996).
• A new kingdom, Archaea is discovered and found to occur commonly (Barnes et al. 1994, Zimmer 1995).
• Microorganisms capable of withstanding temperatures in excess of 100℃ form the basis of chemosynthetic-based food chains around hydrothermal vents at abyssal ocean depths (Brock t al. 1994).

Of course, we have saved perhaps the most astonishing thing for last - the tantalizing possibility that Martian meteorite ALH84001 contains microbial microfossils, the first evidence that life exists elsewhere in the universe other than Earth (Mckay et al. 1996). This single electrifying report has riveted the attention of non-scientists and scientists alike, and will stimulate a tsunami of interdisciplinary geomicrobiological research. One day we will look back on this time, a time when instrumentation and creative analytical techniques converged with crumbling barriers between physical and biological sciences, as the golden age of geomicrobiology. It falls to us, the new generation of geomicrobiologists, to integrate knowledge from such diverse areas as the molecular aspects of microbial surface recognition, data on microbial adhesion and tooth decay from dental literature, and mineral dissolution data from the geochemistry literature to produce a unified picture.』

Acknowledgments
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