Comments on: Drain the Ocean (on Nat’l Geographic Channel) http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/08/05/drain-the-ocean-on-natl-geographic-channel/ A blog about sedimentary geology. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/08/05/drain-the-ocean-on-natl-geographic-channel/#comment-5852 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:36:36 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/?p=2530#comment-5852 Colo_kea … thanks for the review. My buddy DVR’d it, so I’ll see it eventually.

]]> By: Colo_kea http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/08/05/drain-the-ocean-on-natl-geographic-channel/#comment-5851 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:13:30 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/?p=2530#comment-5851 I admit I had trouble concentrating on the show. Best parts: The water of the Colorado River, the underwater fumaroles, the giant octopus attracted by light patterns… Yes, this was a lot more about biology than expected. But pulling away and seeing the mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge was cool, as was seeing the “seafloor” exposed in Iceland. I would like to watch the show again when I am not so easily distracted. One issue: It was quite “Amero-centric” – even the mud volcanoes were in California, when there’s a massive mud volcano in Indonesia.

Great narrator! (Avery Brooks)

Program repeats Wednesday August 12, 12:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific time; Sunday, August 16, 2:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time; Tuesday, August 18, 5:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time.

Here’s a link to the show’s Web site: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/drain-the-ocean-3639/Overview#tab-Overview

]]> By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/08/05/drain-the-ocean-on-natl-geographic-channel/#comment-5844 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:31:38 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/?p=2530#comment-5844 Geogirldi … yeah, the GoM is a fasinating region for looking at interactions of and feedbacks between sedimentation and salt-driven deformation. Have fun!

]]> By: Geogirldi http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/08/05/drain-the-ocean-on-natl-geographic-channel/#comment-5842 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:28:38 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/?p=2530#comment-5842 I’ll have to set the DVR and see what it’s all about! Thanks for the info!

I, too, am fascinated by the dynamic features observed on the seafloor. I’m currently working on deepwater Gulf of Mexico projects and working to characterize the structural/stratigraphic supra-salt features. The morphology highlighted by the 3D seismic data is pretty amazing and with the clarity of multibeam bathymetry it’s even moreso. In the GoM a lot of features result from and continue to drive the complex salt tectonics. I’ve been looking at a lot of thin-skinned deformation – both extensional and compressional features. It’s a giant 4-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.

Geology is awesome, isn’t it?!

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