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Based on multibeam bathymetry, high-resolution deep-towed sidescan sonar and Chirp subbottom profiling 32 cold seep sites, already identified in Sahling et al. (2008a), have been studied in an approximately 1000km 2 large area ranging from 800 to 2600m water depth along the middle slope of the active continental margin offshore Nicaragua. Ground truthing is available from towed camera surveys...