授課教師：劉家瑄教授（海洋所）、魏國彥教授（地質系）
這一門課程是海洋研究所碩士班必修的海洋科學四門核心課程之一，主要介紹海洋地質的基本知識與觀念，以使學生對海洋科學能有較全面的認識及正確的觀念。授課內容從地球表面的形貌與海底地形開始，介紹板塊構造學說與海洋地殼的生成與演化，再從特殊的海底地質區域，如中洋脊、大陸邊緣，談到台灣周圍的海洋地質環境。另一方面，從介紹海洋沈積物與生物地層的記錄，我們探討海水面的變化及古海洋學的興起與發展。最後，本課程也淺談海洋非生物資源以及最新的海洋地質探測技術及發展。授課方式以課堂講授為主，並鼓勵討論。
This is one of the 4 core courses in ocean sciences that all the master program students in the Institute of Oceanography will need to take. The main objective of this course is to teach students the basic concepts of marine geology and geophysics, thus students could have a basic understanding of the geological aspects in ocean sciences. The course will start by introducing the shape of the earth and sea floor morphology, then to explain the structure and evolution of the oceanic crust that leads to the introduction of the plate tectonics. Special geological features of the sea floor, such as the mid-ocean ridges and the continental margins, will be examined, and the marine geology around Taiwan will be discussed. Further more, marine sediments and biostratigraphy records will be introduced, followed by sea level changes and the development of paleoceanography. This course will also cover marine resources and recent progresses on marine geology.