Acta Geoscientica Sinica is a comprehensive academic journal of earth sciences sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. It was founded in 1979. The journal strives to reflect new theories, new achievements, new discoveries, new methods and new progress in the field of earth sciences in a timely and rapid manner. It publishes academic papers of high level and important significance in basic research and applied research in various branches and marginal disciplines of earth sciences.
The columns include review and progress, debate and discussion, research and investigation, technology and method, express and short article, geological relics and geological parks, information and dynamics, etc.