This paper establishes the existence and uniqueness, and also presents a blow-up criterion, for solutions of the quasi-geostrophic (QG) equation in a framework of Fourier type, specifically Fourier-Besov-Morey spaces. If it is assumed that the initial data 0 is small and belonging to the critical Fourier-Besov-Morrey spaces, we get the global well-posedness results of the QG equation (1). Moreover, we prove that there exists a time T > 0 such that the QG equation ( 1) admits a unique local solution for large initial data.