Geological Everything Model 3D

Yimin Dou1, Xinming Wu*,1, Nathan L Bangs2, Harpreet Singh Sethi3, Jintao Li1, Hang Gao1, Zhixiang Guo1
1. University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Computational Interpretation Group (CIG)
2. University of Texas at Austin, UT Institute for Geophysics
3. NVIDIA
* Corresponding author: xinmwu@ustc.edu.cn
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GEM supports a wide range of subsurface imaging tasks, including structural and stratigraphic interpretation (e.g., faults, horizons, unconformities, relative geological time), geobody segmentation (e.g., channels, salt bodies), and physical property modeling (e.g., impedance, gamma ray, lithology). By conditioning on diverse human prompts—such as well logs, structural or stratigraphic sketches, and masks—GEM generates geologically coherent 3D results with support for expert interaction and iterative refinement.

Abstract

Understanding Earth's subsurface is critical for energy transition, natural hazard mitigation, and planetary science. Yet subsurface analysis remains fragmented, with separate models required for structural interpretation, stratigraphic analysis, geobody segmentation, and property modeling—each tightly coupled to specific data distributions and task formulations. We introduce the Geological Everything Model 3D (GEM), a unified generative architecture that reformulates all these tasks as prompt-conditioned inference along latent structural frameworks derived from subsurface imaging. This formulation moves beyond task-specific models by enabling a shared inference mechanism, where GEM propagates human-provided prompts—such as well logs, masks, or structural sketches—along inferred structural frameworks to produce geologically coherent outputs. Through this mechanism, GEM achieves zero-shot generalization across tasks with heterogeneous prompt types, without retraining for new tasks or data sources. This capability emerges from a two-stage training process that combines self-supervised representation learning on large-scale field seismic data with adversarial fine-tuning using mixed prompts and labels across diverse subsurface tasks. GEM demonstrates broad applicability across surveys and tasks, including Martian radar stratigraphy analysis, structural interpretation in subduction zones, full seismic stratigraphic interpretation, geobody delineation, and property modeling. By bridging expert knowledge with generative reasoning in a structurally aware manner, GEM lays the foundation for scalable, human-in-the-loop geophysical AI—transitioning from fragmented pipelines to a vertically integrated, promptable reasoning system.

Structural Interpretation & Geobody Segmentation

Property Modeling

Complex Faults Results

Geobody Results

Stratigraphic Results

Modeling Results

Martian Radar Data Results

More Results...

BibTeX


@article{dou2025gem,
        title={Geological Everything Model 3D: A Promptable Foundation Model for Unified and Zero-Shot Subsurface Understanding},
        author={Yimin Dou, Xinming Wu, Nathan L Bangs, Harpreet Singh Sethi, Jintao Li, Hang Gao and Zhixiang Guo},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00419},
        year={2025}
}