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Geological setting of Helgoland Reef. (a) Sub-bottom profiler (SBP) transect across the pockmark field. (b) Detail of the methane flare. (c) Exemplary detail of pockmarks. (d) Description of core CE11_45VC32. See Fig. 1 for the location of the SBP transect and the core.