paleoceanography
noun
paleoceanography is a noun meaning “The study of the history of the oceans, especially their circulation, chemistry, biogeography, fertility, and sedimentation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-C-E-A-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paleoceanography mean?
noun
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The study of the history of the oceans, especially their circulation, chemistry, biogeography, fertility, and sedimentation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paleoceanography
- palaeoceanography
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleoceanography?
Paleoceanography appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paleoceanography come from?
From paleo- + oceanography.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).