Abstract
Measurements from ships have indicated that intrusions--alternating layers of warm and cool water--play a key role in ocean mixing. Salt fingers, features just 10 cm in diameter, are implicated in the transport of these 20-m-thick water layers. In his Perspective, [Ruddick][1] highlights the report by [ Holbrook et al .][2], who have used seismic profiling to image the small-scale layering in the ocean at an unprecedented level of detail. The new seismic method should help to determine the precise mechanism of ocean mixing. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/301/5634/772 [2]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/301/5634/821
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