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To avoid having to carry thousands of strings of coins long distances
I would definitely exclude maritime science and environmental science: both are more focused on the life and interaction of various parts of ocean, and less on the form of the rocks.
It is in fact a sub-discipline of both geology and eceanography: it's a part of geology by the virtue of focusing on rocks, and it's part of oceanography by the virtue of focusing on the rocks on the ground of the oceans
