根据天地生综合研究现状、任务和建立地球表层学的需要,综合考虑岩石圈、大气圈的整体性和水圈、生物圈或有机圈的扩散渗透性等,就“地球表层”的概念和范围作了综合讨论,认为现在广为沿用的地球表层概念存有局限性,应重新修定,拓展并充实其内涵,提出地球表层应该是包括整个岩石圈、水圈、大气圈和生物圈(或有机圈)及其相互关系和地表能量场在内的地球部分,它是地表各圈层相互渗透、交织、相互作用和调节的有机整体,是人类赖以生存与发展的地球环境。

From the current situation and the duty of synthetic research on cosmos-earth -life (CEL) and the need for building geospherology this paper gives a deeper discussion on the concept of the earth s surfaces with regard of the entirety of lithosphere and atornosphere and the diffusibility and permeability of hydrosphere and biosphere. Because of limitation of it s concept commonly used nowadays the earth s surfaces needs a new definition to it s connotation and boundary. A new boundary of the earth s surfaces includes iithosphere，hydrosphere，atamasphere，biosphere and physic fields on surface as a whole.