"marine setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to describe a particular area of the ocean or nearby coastline. For example, "The yacht sailed through the stunning marine setting of the Caribbean Sea."
Sandstone/siltstone-mudstone interbedded facies of the Permo-Carboniferous Talchir formation, Gondwana Supergroup, is exposed in the Raniganj Basin and records the activities of tidal currents in a terminoglacial, storm-influenced shallow marine setting.
Hydrodynamic interpretation of these sole marks, interrelationship between palaeogeographic constraints governing the overall sediment dispersal pattern, and the stratification architecture in storm event beds signify complex interplay of mutually perpendicular shore-parallel and shore-normal components of storm current in shallow marine setting.
These shales are likely to be deposited in a restricted marine setting (Livsey et al. 1992).
The rocks of Madison were deposited in a generally shallow marine setting as indicated by richly fossiliferous rocks and favor for accumulation of petroleum resources (Porter 1955).
Also, organisms typically expend more energy in a freshwater environment to maintain their inner chemical balance, particularly their salty body fluids, than they do in a marine setting.
Results also show that the reservoirs are of foreshore, upper shoreface, lower shoreface, tidal channel and channel sands, which were deposited in a shallow marine setting.
A fully fluvial system occurs in the southern portion of the Bahariya Oasis, including depositional products of meandering and braided streams, and a coeval fluvio-marine setting is dominant to the north.
INCHEON, South Korea North and South Koreaexchangedged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter.
The marines set up fresh bivouacs across a wide swath of territory here, but it was unclear how long they would sit still.
So one of the marines set down his bottle of beer on the glass coffee table and went to answer it.
Immediately upon landing in CH-53 and CH-46 transport helicopters, the marines set to work securing the airstrip southwest of Kandahar, the Taliban's political base and last major military stronghold.
