This anthology reflects the research achievements in the geology, geomorphology, petrography and lithofacies dynamics of continental shelf and continental slope in recent years. The characteristics of Contemporary Continental Shelf geology research are the comprehensiveness of methods, the extensive regionality of problem solving and the paleogeographic orientation of research. The last point is very important, because only through the analysis of paleogeography can it be possible to reconstruct the main stages of the Mesozoic Cenozoic geological history of the continental shelf. Geological mapping is of great significance in the research and development of the continental shelf. At the beginning of the collection, MI en aleksyev, Pu a Kaplin and m a spiridonov discussed how to most effectively carry out the methodological general principles of continental shelf geological mapping, which is undoubtedly of practical significance for the planning and deployment of the census and exploration of various minerals. It should be emphasized that paleogeography plays a decisive role in the geological mapping of the continental shelf, because it can distinguish the Paleoenvironment that best characterizes the development stages of the continental shelf. The study of the formation and deposition of modern landforms on the continental shelf in different natural zones of the world's oceans convincingly proves that there is a climate zonality in the performance of morphological genetic processes in the coastal continental shelf region. This zonal climate perspective is embodied in the anthology by selecting relevant materials from the humid tropical zone, temperate zone and polar zone. In this regard, the article written by A. S. yonin, M. g. ulkovic and Qing Feng is particularly noteworthy. This article integrates the materials on the continental shelf of Vietnam, where the transportation of huge amounts of clay materials from land plays a major role in the morphological genesis, forming a vast underwater accumulation plain. In the tropical regions of the world's oceans, the so-called reef formed continental shelves are also widely distributed. They are a special geomorphic tectonic unit on the margins of continents and islands. The article by F. S. Medvedev and his co-authors discusses the multi-faceted and unique process of the development of the reef formed continental shelf, which is determined by biological factors, the geodynamic characteristics of the crustal development in specific areas under the ocean, the global fluctuations of sea level and the lithofacies dynamics process. Due to the problems related to the development of the natural resources of the Arctic marginal sea of the Soviet Union, the research on the northern continental shelf of Eurasia has received special attention. This paper discusses the paleogeography, geomorphology and petrography of the continental shelf of the Arctic seas. 、 There are many articles in the collection devoted to the study of regional tectonics, especially the morphological structure of the Bering Strait and the tectonic evolution of the Arctic basin. It is the first time to classify the geomorphic morphology of the northeastern continental shelf according to the genetic markers, and to determine the causes of lithofacies anomalies in the coastal continental shelf shallow water area. In the comprehensive article, we should first mention the articles of A. a. chisjakov and V. a. Sherbakov, which discuss the sedimentary conditions in the continental margin sediment trap; And Yi De Danilov's article on the evolution of the continental margin in northern Eurasia. The last part of the collection is devoted to methodological issues: using the natural luminescence of marine sediments to indicate the lithofacies dynamics process; The principle of morphological dynamics in continental shelf geomorphology; Using satellite images to study continental shelf structure. N. a. abratov and his coauthors discussed the transport and redeposition of sediments on the continental shelf under the influence of biological factors, and proposed a new mechanism of sediment transport from the continent to the open water under the action of circulation vortex.