The journal publishes articles containing the results of completed major priority original previously unpublished scientific research in the fields of geology, geotectonics, geodynamics, petrology, volcanology, geology of ore and non-metallic minerals, oil and gas, stratigraphy and lithology, paleontology, geochemistry, mineralogy, crystal chemistry, cosmochemistry, geoecology, hydrogeology, problems of land waters, geophysics, physics of the earth's interior, seismology, physics of the atmosphere, ocean, hydrosphere, remote sensing of the Earth from space, physical oceanology, marine hydrochemistry, ocean biosphere, climate theory, geoinformatics. The purpose of the journal is to comprehensively cover fundamental and applied research in the Earth sciences, to familiarize a wide range of specialists with the latest achievements of Russian and foreign researchers in this field.