Abstract: Surficial Geochemistry is an interdisciplinary study of the earth’s surface system, which is closely related to climate, environment, and human being. With the advent of the era of big data, surficial geochemistry is facing new opportunities and challenges. In order to provide reference for the construction of the big data platform of the Deep-Time Digital Earth Project (DDE), this paper conducts a preliminary investigation on the existing surficial geochemical data and databases. The results show that the surficial geochemical data have the characteristics of diversity and inter-disciplinal. Most data are lacking of standards and in an unstructured state; larger databases such as GEOTRACES and PANGAEA have relatively accepted data standards and data management experience; SISAL database has achieved key results in the task of data structuring; which are all worthy of further study. The works of surficial geochemistry big data science construction should be guided by research goals and needs, and by setting up corresponding scientific working groups as joined forces to promote the digitalization of surficial geochemistry discipline.

Key words: Surficial Geochemistry, database, big data, SISAL