Pockmark
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Pockmark may refer to:
- acne scarring — resulting from acne or infections such as chicken pox
- the scarring of smallpoxSmallpoxSmallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
- Pockmark (geology)Pockmark (geology)Pockmarks are craters in the seabed caused by fluids 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. As pockmarks are uncommon on the land surface,...
— a geological formation