Pockmarks are one of the most obvious and abundant structural features of the North Sea seabed, yet their influence on fauna is virtually unknown. We report the distribution of benthic megafaunal ...

New 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 ...

The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks. There are probably millions of them around the world ocean.

“Pockmarks are typically shallow indentations in the skin resembling craters, but other types of pockmarks, known as ice-pick scars, are actually quite deep and narrow and look like a toothpick ...

An unusual and unexpected discovery: on the floor of Lake Neuchâtel, geologists have happened upon huge underwater craters -- some of the largest in the world to be found in lakes. They are not ...

While the research team isn’t sure how these pockmarks first formed, they’ve convincingly mapped how these 5,251 depressions formed over hundreds of thousands of years.

Pockmarks were first discovered in the late 1960s off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, although they have since been found around the world. In 2013, ...

The pockmarks, sometimes spanning more than 10 meters, come in a variety of sizes and odd shapes. While some look like long furrows, half-moons, or concentric circles of sand, others are ringed by ...

Sometimes, the aftermath of a skin issue can be as frustrating as the issue itself—and that's especially true for anyone who has ever dealt with pockmarks. Ugh. If you've had a past acne ...