In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the classification, geology and exploration of asteroids and meteorites. Topics discussed include meteorites and their asteroidal parent bodies; the diversion and exploitation of ice-rich NEOs using the solar collector; radar characteristics of asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24); asteroid dimensions and the truncated pareto distribution; Hilda asteroids in the Jupiter neighborhood; and asteroid Apophis and 1950 DA.

During recent years, systematic, scientific, and engineering effort by researchers in the United States and abroad, has established the scientific basis for Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) technology. In the past, basic research was left to the laboratory, and field use was generally limited to an uninformed oil producer using microbes without knowing what to expect. The merger of these two groups--researchers and producers--is fostering acceptance of MEOR technology through the petroleum community. The applicability of MEOR technologies, its economic feasibility, and indications for future directions have become essential elements of current MEOR research programs. <...>

Reviewers of the German edition of this book found that the text deals with facts and descriptions of limestones rather than with global speculations on facies models or large-scale sedimentation patterns. The book is neither a picture-book nor a recipe-book for facies interpretation of carbonates, but an attempt to summarize the present "state of the art" of a rather small but increasingly more important part of geology.

The objective of this book is to provide a synthesis of the methods used in microfacies studies of carbonate rocks and to show how the application of microfacies studies has contributed to new developments in carbonate geology. In contrast with other textbooks on carbonate sedimentology this book focuses on those compositional and textural constituents of carbonates that reflect the depositional and diagenetic history and determine the practical usefulness of carbonate rocks.