Carbonate blocks found in muddy sediment off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: pieces of small authigenic carbonate mounds and vents related to hydrocarbon seeps?
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...
Published in: | Atlantic Geology |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Atlantic Geoscience Society
2006
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Online Access: | https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/2783 |