Abstract: This article uses the data from Google Scholar to show the initiation of marine geology and its development context. Then it gives a quantitative analysis of literature growth, related journals, distributions of authors, study topics and fields based on the main research papers retrieved from Elsevier SDOS. These statistical results not only reveal the history and latest trends of marine geological research in the world objectively, but also can provide a reference for the arrangement of marine geological work layout and new relative studies in China.