Carbonate blocks found in muddy sediment off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: pieces of small authigenic carbonate mounds and vents related to hydrocarbon seeps?

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Authors: Wallace, Peter, Harrington, Matt, Cook, Ryan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 2006
• Subjects: Breton Island; Dee
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/2783

Carbonate blocks brought up from the seafloor during drag fishing in a small restricted area offshore northern Cape Breton Island are irregularly shaped and range in size from 6 cm3 to > 1 m3. They have smooth to "clinkery", dendritic, or "popcorn-surface" structures, can be lay...