💧🌏 Greg CocksMay 29, 2024
Research Reveals That Prehistoric Seafloor Pockmarks Off The California Coast Are Maintained By Powerful Sediment Flows
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https://phys.org/news/2024-05-reveals-prehistoric-seafloor-pockmarks-california.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007374 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #bathymetry #seafloor #oceanfloor #geomorphometry #geomorphology #massmovement #geology #sediment #sedimentation #California #coast #coastal #infrastructure #windfarms #MBARI #USGS #Stanford #debrisflow #geophysics #SurPockmarkField #pockmarks #BigSur #gravityflows #risk #hazard #riskanalysis #AUV #AutonomousUnderwaterVehicle
Research reveals that prehistoric seafloor pockmarks off the California coast are maintained by powerful sediment flows

New MBARI research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions, maintain these prehistoric formations.

Phys.org
scinexx - das wissensmagazinDec 21, 2023
Nordsee: Rätsel der Gruben gelöst? Forscher finden mögliche Ursache für zehntausende kraterartige Vertiefungen im Meeresgrund. #Nordsee #Meeresgrund #Pockmarks #Ozean
https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/nordsee-raetsel-der-gruben-geloest/
Nordsee: Rätsel der Gruben gelöst?

Mysteriöse Senken: Forschende könnten geklärt haben, warum der Meeresgrund der Nordsee von zehntausenden Gruben übersät ist. Bisher galten diese flachen

scinexx | Das Wissensmagazin
InkApr 18, 2023
Currently at work on a #poem for a friend whose #pockmarks have hindered her perception of her own beauty for her entire life. She has a thing for stars, thus the poem's title, "Star Tissue"