''Marine and Petroleum Geology'' is a

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covering marine and

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. It was established in 1984 and is published by

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. The

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is Massimo Zecchin ( Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale) and (Max) Qinhong Hu (The University of Texas at Arlington).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 3.281.

References

External links

* Geology journals English-language journals Marine geology Petroleum geology Bimonthly journals Elsevier academic journals Publications established in 1984 {{Geology-journal-stub