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How Deep?
A discussion between
Sir Edward Bullard , F.R.S. of the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics in the University of Cambridge and Tom Gaskell , Ph.D. chief physicist of the exploration department of one of the major oil companies
To extend last week's programme, the speakers discuss the rock of the deep ocean floor.
It is already known from seismic experiments at sea that the ocean floor is covered with a thousand feet of soft sediment, but nothing is known of the nature of the underlying rocks. There is an economic incentive to find out, because oil companies are already carrying out extensive off-shore drilling for oil and Dr. Gaskell contends that existing techniques could be extended without much research.