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marine geology  

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  • The branch of geology that deals with the ocean floor and the continental margins, encompassing studies of submarine relief, plate margins, the influence of physical processes such as waves, tides, storms and contour currents on the sea floor, the movement of sediments on the continental shelf, and to and in the deep ocean, the sedimentology of submarine fans and other deep-water clastic systems, the geochemistry of rocks at and beneath the sea floor and the fluids moving through the crust. Marine geology has expanded rapidly since the advent of deep-sea drilling in the 1960s, and through recent technological advances such as side-scan sonar and seismic stratigraphy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; marine geology]

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