Paleoceanography is the study of the history of the oceans in the geologic past with regard to circulation, chemistry, biology, geology and patterns of sedimentation and biological productivity.

What is the meaning of Paleoceanography?

Paleoceanography is the study of the oceans as they were in the past, from a few hundred years to billions of years ago, with the aim to reconstruct their physical, chemical and biological character.

What does a Paleoceanographer do?

paleoceanography, scientific study of Earth's oceanographic history involving the analysis of the ocean's sedimentary record, the history of tectonic plate motions, glacial changes, and established relationships between present sedimentation patterns and environmental factors.