Comments on: Through the Looking Glass: Peering Through the Bottom of the Ocean http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/06/through-the-looking-glass-peering-through-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: State of the Planet http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/06/through-the-looking-glass-peering-through-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/comment-page-1/#comment-58422 State of the Planet Thu, 10 May 2012 03:01:13 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26122#comment-58422 [...] show up in the echoes from sound pulses in a type of measurement called seismic reflection (see previous blog post).  Unfortunately much of the region we surveyed has deep gullies with no sediment layers.  Ocean [...]

]]> By: Pratigya Polissar http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/06/through-the-looking-glass-peering-through-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/comment-page-1/#comment-57217 Pratigya Polissar Mon, 07 May 2012 19:43:25 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26122#comment-57217 Hi Beth,

Thanks! We don’t have a moon pool on this ship, we just send the sediment corers over the side. I was thinking about the sound reflections from the bottom of the seawater and looking through them to the sediments below.

Pratigya

]]> By: Beth Weymer http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/06/through-the-looking-glass-peering-through-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/comment-page-1/#comment-57113 Beth Weymer Mon, 07 May 2012 11:42:49 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26122#comment-57113 Nice narrative! Are you referring to the moon pool as a looking glass? Love the clear, simple descriptions.
You must be a scientist ;) I’m the mom of two TAMU geologists (& the wife of a wanna be).

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