Abstract: This paper reviews the growing, development of the Solid Earth Geophysics together with its branch terms. Especially, new branches in this field have frequently been emerging since 1970s, resulting in the creation rate of new scientific terms heavily exceeds their propagation rate. It is thought that keeping the branch development in mind, renewing the division terms and introducing new scientific term to public in time are also important for knowledge creation and generalization.

Key words: geophysics, solid Earth physics, applied geophysics, tectonophysics, regional geophysics