该杂志自1963年出版以来，双月刊，是具有国际权威性和发行量的三种主要岩土技术刊物之一。主题包括基础、挖掘、土壤性质、水坝、堤防、斜坡、地球水文学的新发展、岩石工程、地球化学、废物管理和污染物运输、冻土、冰雪、近海土壤和地球统计学。
Published since 1963, this bimonthly journal is one of three leading geotechnical publications with an international authorship and circulation. Topics include foundations, excavations, soil properties, dams, embankments, slopes, new developments in geohydrology, rock engineering, geochemistry, waste management and contaminant transport, frozen soil, ice and snow, offshore soils, and geostatistics.