Crossword clues for pockmark
pockmark
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pockmark \Pock"mark\, n. A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock. 2 A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid
WordNet
v. mark wit pockmarks; "Her face was pockmarked by the disease"
Wikipedia
Pockmark may refer to:
- Acne scarring—resulting from acne or infections such as chicken pox
- The scarring of smallpox
- Pockmark (geology)—a geological formation
Pockmarks are craters in the seabed caused by fluids (gas and liquids) erupting and streaming through the sediments.
Pockmarks were discovered off the coasts of Nova Scotia, Canada in the late 1960s by Lew King and Brian McLean of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Pockmarks are uncommon on the land surface, and are expected in the ocean.
They were discovered off Nova Scotia, using a new side scan sonar developed in the late 1960s by Kelvin Hughes.
The craters off Nova Scotia are up to in diameter and deep. Pockmarks have been found worldwide. Discovery was aided by the use of high-resolution multibeam acoustic systems for bathymetric mapping. In these cases, pockmarks have been interpreted as the morphological expression of gas or oil leakage from active hydrocarbon system or a deep overpressured petroleum reservoir.
Usage examples of "pockmark".
The jagged sandstone wall was pockmarked with dark holes of caves and streaked with narrow cracks and crevices.
It was littered with crumbling fragments of debris, and pockmarked with many craterlets, dozens, perhaps hundreds.
It looked like a lumpy potato, pockmarked with craterlets from the impacts of smaller rocks.
Its face was pockmarked with craters and chasms, crisscrossed with hundreds of crevices.
On the evening of September ninth, a pockmarked graduate student named Deccan Blendish stood in a crowd in Durbar Square to watch the first public interrogations of that season, a victory, if it can be called that, for a certain extreme faction in the school of law.
The pockmarked surface of the Dreadnaught grew nearer, resembling a badly scarred moon.
The shaft was also pockmarked with hundreds of tiny hexagons that appeared to be finely tooled and scattered at random.
This craggy ridgeline rose starkly above the trees, a jumbled mass of natural rock pale in color and pockmarked by openings, steps, niches, overhangs, and what looked like windows carved into the upper reaches of the little crags.
Cat had pale youthful features, dominated by dark watchful eyes and pockmarks that tattooed both cheeks.
The inner walls, still remorselessly bright and cheerful, showed the scars and pockmarks of discharged energy guns.
In the highest and least accessible reaches of the walls were the pockmarks of handholds and the shadows of rock shelves.
But the only marks that sullied the smooth whiteness were the pockmarks where Okie had wasted the vid camera.
Vahil took great pleasure in assailing the heights of fashion, unbothered by his incongruous stoutness or the pockmarks pitting his cheerful face.
This was climbing by Braille, running fingers and feet over the smooth surface looking for pockmarks and indentations, tapping spikes into hair-cracks, standing with the tip of a boot-toe balanced on a foothold slim as a goose-quill.
The thick mustache and beard he had grown to mask the pockmarked, hooked-nose cragginess of his face had only ended up adding to the effect he had hoped to minimize.