在各项地质调查工作中，从地质填图、普查找矿，直到矿床勘探及开发，各种地球物理方法都被广泛地应用，并取得了良好的效果。如果把瑞典人在1640年左右从中国传入欧洲的罗盘找磁铁矿算作地球物理方法在地质调查工作中应用的开始，到现在已有三百四十年的历史了。这三百四十年约历史大概可以分为两个阶段。第一个阶段是第二次世界大战结束以前 In various geological surveys, various geophysical methods have been widely applied and achieved good results, from geological mapping and prospecting to prospecting until the prospecting and development of the deposit. It is now 340 years since the beginning of the application of geophysical methods to geological surveys by the Swedes to find magnetites from the Chinese compass introduced into Europe around 1640. These three hundred and forty years of history can be roughly divided into two stages. The first stage was before the end of World War II