What are the five major divisions within the science of oceanography?
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- marine geology (or geological oceanography), including plate tectonics and other studies of the ocean floor; - physical oceanography, which is concerned with the physical attributes of the ocean (such as its temperature-salinity structure, waves, and currents); - chemical oceanography (the study of the chemistry of the ocean); - biological oceanography (also sometimes considered a subset of marine biology), which is the study of the flora and fauna of the ocean; - meteorologic oceanography, which is concerned with how the atmosphere and the ocean interact.
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