From the perspective of historical geology, study of the processes of geological events happened in the earth history, their evolutionary trends and environment impacts in the past and future, will be a major task of geology in the 21 century.

• 以历史地质学的方法和视角，研究地质过程的发生、发展和演化过程，以及这种过程在今天和明天的演化趋势，及其对人类生存环境的影响，将是今后一个时期地质科学的主要任务。