# GEL 116: Oceanography

- By: Tessa Hill
- Publisher: University of California, Davis
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://geo.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/GEL_116%3A_Oceanography_(Hill))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://geo.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/GEL_116%3A_Oceanography_(Hill)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/geo-1235/pdf

Oceanography is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean and covers a wide range of topics, including marine organisms and ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries.