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Paul shook his head “If there was a new range growing up down there, I’d expect to see ridges and folding in the outer sedimentary layers And we’d certainly detect a mild upslope”

Gan of what Paul was describing, but she saw nothing to suggest a change in elevation “Let’s let it play out before we go back to the drawing board”

“Not much else we can do,” Paul said

Ga for her cup of tea with one hand and tapping the keyboard with the other Lazily, she cycled through a host of other readings: virtual topography, water teanized the inforraphs, but the data made no sense

“So the teacup down

“Why do you say that?”

“According to the teoes deeper”

Paul glanced over her shoulder “Have you passed through a thermocline?”

“No,” she said “No sudden change, just a slow, steady increase, approxiree for every seventy feet That indicates a continuousinstead of boundary layer”

“What about the salinity?” Paul asked

Ga “Evento this, the salinity is decreasing as we descend”

“That can’t be right Can you run a diagnostic on the sensor probes?”

Ganose a problem with the sensors, let alone fix it reot was a rudi”

“Bring it back up,” Paul suggested “Not all the way, just a hundred feet or so”

“What good will that do?”