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Linking a linear pockmark train with a buried Palaeozoic structure: a case study from the St. Lawrence Estuary |
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| Authors: | Nicolas Pinet Mathieu Duchesne Denis Lavoie |
| Institution: | 1. Geological Survey of Canada, 490 rue de la Couronne, Québec, QC, G1K 9A9, Canada |
| Abstract: | The 15-km-long Matane pockmark train belongs to a series of NNE-striking alignments of pockmarks mapped on the seafloor of the St. Lawrence Estuary. It includes 109 pockmarks that show a complete transition from well-defined, relatively deep (up to 8.6 m), crater-like depressions to subtle, partly buried morphological features, suggesting that pockmarks have formed at different periods along the whole alignment and that the location of fluid release has changed through time. On seismic profiles, pockmarks are characterized by vertical seismic chimneys that root in the (fractured?) hinge zone of an open anticline within the autochthonous Palaeozoic rocks of the St. Lawrence Platform. In absence of a geochemical characterization of expelled gas, the relationship between the Matane pockmark train and the anticline in a domain characterized by mature source rocks is the strongest evidence for the genetic link between pockmarks and the release of gas from an active hydrocarbon system or a reservoir located in the Palaeozoic succession. Alignment of the Matane pockmark train along a buried bedrock anticline of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary |
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