Marine Geology is the premier international journal on marine geological processes in the broadest sense. We seek papers that are comprehensive, interdisciplinary and synthetic that will be lasting contributions to the field. Although most papers are based on regional studies, they must demonstrate new findings of international significance. We accept papers on subjects as diverse as seafloor hydrothermal systems, beach dynamics, early diagenesis, microbiological studies in sediments, palaeoclimate studies and geophysical studies of the seabed. We encourage papers that address emerging new fields, for example the influence of anthropogenic processes on coastal/marine geology and coastal/marine geoarchaeology. We insist that the papers are concerned with the marine realm and that they deal with geology: with rocks, sediments, and physical and chemical processes affecting them. Papers should address scientific hypotheses: highly descriptive data compilations or papers that deal only with marine management and risk assessment should be submitted to other journals. Papers on laboratory or modelling studies must demonstrate direct relevance to marine processes or deposits. The primary criteria for acceptance of papers is that the science is of high quality, novel, significant, and of broad international interest. 

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Editors-in-Chief
Edward Anthony
European Research and Education Centre for Environmental Geosciences, Aix-en-Provence, France Coastal, deltaic and estuarine marine geology; shelf and coastal processes
Shu Gao
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Marine sediment dynamics, Coastal and estuarine processes, Shelf bedforms, tidal inlets, and tidal-flat geomorphology, Land-ocean interaction, Holocene shelf sedimentary systems, Anthropogenic processes in shelf regions
Gert J. de Lange
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Marine geochemistry, biogeochemistry and palaeoceanography
Adina Paytan
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United StatesBiogeochemistry, inorganic geochemistry, Stable isotopes, Paleoceanography, Low temperature geochemistry, Global cycles
Michele Rebesco
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, Sgonico, Italy Deep-sea, Sedimentary processes, Slope instabilities, Glacial sediments, Seismic/morphology interpretations
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Troels Aagaard
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
Tiago Alves, PhD
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
John B. Anderson
Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States
Serge Berné
Perpignan University, Perpignan, France
Angelo Camerlenghi
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, Sgonico, Italy
SungKwun Chough
Seoul National University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Marc De Batist
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Vesselin M. Dekov
Tokyo University of Marine Technology and Science School of Marine Life Science School of Marine Science, Minato-Ku, Japan
Kay-Christian Emeis
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nathalie Fagel
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Roland Gehrels
University of York, York, United Kingdom
Kazuhisa Goto
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Peter Harris
Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
James R. Hein
US Geological Survey Northwest Region, Menlo Park, California, United States
Christian Hensen
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
Christian Hübscher
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Sabine Kasten
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Steven Kuehl
William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States
Paul Liu
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Francisco José Lobo
Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, Granada, Spain
Gerd Masselink
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Neil Mitchell
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
David Mosher
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States
Thierry Mulder
Oceanic Environments and Paleoenvironments, Talence, France
Julian Orford
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Alan Orpin
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Charles K. Paull
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States
Kevin Pedoja
Continental and Coastal Morphodynamics, Caen, France
Gerardo M. E. Perillo
Argentine Institute of Oceanography, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
David J. W. Piper
Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Leonid Polyak
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Yoshiki Saito, DSc
Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
Nabil Sultan
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea Marine Geosciences, Plouzane, France
Alan Trenhaile
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Maarten Vanneste
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
Ping-Xian Wang
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
John Wells
William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States
Colin Woodroffe
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Shouye Yang
Tongji University State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China
Emeritus Editors
M.A. Arthur
A.H. Bouma
H. Chamley
J.R. Curray
D.S. Gorsline
D.A. McManus
D. J. W. Piper
L.M.J.U. van Straaten
J.T. Wells