The policy of the Geological Quarterly is to publish significant contributions of information and geological insight relevant to an international readership. The journal has been issued since 1957 at the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute and, at present, is the leading Earth sciences journal in Poland. All aspects of Earth and related sciences, and universal and broad regional rather than locally oriented topics are covered.The Geological Quarterly is abstracted and indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded including the Web of Science, Research Alert, Current Contents/(Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences), American Geological Institute/Bibliography and Index of Geology, Elsevier/GeoAbstracts, GEOBASE, BIOSIS UK/Zoological Records, and Geological Bibliography of Poland.

《地質季刊》的政策是出版與國際讀者有關的重要資料和地質見解。該雜志自1957年以來一直在波蘭地質研究所-國家研究所發行，目前是波蘭領先的地球科學雜志。包括地球和相關科學的所有方面，以及普遍和廣泛的區域主題，而不是面向當地的主題。《地質季刊》的摘要和索引包括:科學引文索引擴展，包括科學網、研究警報、當前內容/(物理、化學和地球科學)、美國地質研究所/書目和地質索引、愛思維爾/地質摘要、地質數據庫、生物英國/動物學記錄和波蘭地質書目。