Guided by the national goals, combined with the national medium- and long-term science and technology development plan, the school pays equal attention to basic research and applied research; facing the international frontier and the main battlefields of national and local economic development, it has built an innovation system of scientific and technological research; focusing on the development of disciplines, it is mainly constructing five key scientific research and innovation platforms - “Diagenesis and Metallogenesis, Surficial Geochemistry, Energy Science, Water Science, and Engineering Geology.”

Major Research Areas

• Mineral Crystal Chemistry

• High Pressure Mineral Physics

• Magma Dynamics

• Lunar and Planetary Sciences

• Isotope Geochemistry

• Geological Fluid and Ore-Forming Fluid

• Sedimentary Geotectonics and Continental Dynamics

• Paleoceanography

• Environmental Geochemistry and Global Change

• Hydrology and Water Resources

• Seismology (study on seismic focus)

• Applied Geophysics (Exploration Seismology)

• Engineering Geology and Geological Disaster Prevention and Control

• Paleontology and Stratigraphy