Abstract: Shale gas resource is abundant in China, which may relieve our energy supply pressure, but shale gas exploration and development are still in elementary stage, have been centered on its accumulation mode, geologic characteristics, etc. Geophysics plays an important role in conventional oil & gas resource, what roles of geophysics in shale gas exploration and development plays? What're the new requirements to geophysics for shale gas exploration and development? This paper is just to solve these. At first, shale gas distribution and American shale gas exploration & development situation are introduced briefly; then, systematically what can geophysics methods solve in evaluation parameters in shale gas exploration and development. Finally, some suggestions are put forward about the development of geophysics applied in shale gas exploration and development.