The phrase "geological background" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you can use it in a sentence such as: "The geological background of the area is complex and varied."
A popular historian draws on his geological background to describe the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
As Baylor Fox-Kemper's nomination suggests Andrew Revkin's Liberated Carbon provides some geological background, and Melissa Etheridge's passionate anthem to personal responsibility, I Need To Wake Up, was used in Al Gore's influential climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Some of these applications have a geological background.
Here, we give the geological background for these sources of geophysical deformation.
The controlling factors of fracture development are complex owing to the complicated geological background.
One reviewer, of the original article, has already criticized the paper for the lengthy geological background.
This study examined a pair of neighboring small watersheds with similar topographical and geological backgrounds.
In this way, the proposed approach will be useful in disparate geological backgrounds.
Different emphases have been laid according to their own geological backgrounds in the two watersheds and human activities have different effects on the landscapes of the two watersheds.
Thus, it seems likely that the abundance and composition of chemolithotrophic energy metabolisms in microbial communities located in a given deep-sea hydrothermal system could be systematized in terms of geological backgrounds based on the results of the thermodynamic models.
As the coals in the same coal-accumulating basin share similar geological backgrounds and chemical properties (Mao and Xu 1999), it is reasonable to calculate the mercury concentrations by the combination of arithmetic means and the related coal reserves in different regions.
