as a more technical description, that will do.
Layer 3 (Network) is responsible for "path determination" (lowest "cost" route) and "addressing" (IPs) so all it need is to fire out a signal to the remote node and get a reply back.
Here is a list of the ICMP parameters along with their respective RFCs if you want to get into serious reading material. 
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