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Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2013, Vol. 32, No. 12, P. 25–30 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0384-3 E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Heat flow measurements on the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean XIAO Wentao 1,2, ZHANG Tao1,2*, ZHENG Yulong1,2, GAO Jinyao1,2 1 Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China 2 The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China Received 15 May 2013; accepted 23 August 2013 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract Heat flow was measured on the Lomonosov Ridge during the 5th Chinese National Arctic Expedition in 2012. To derive the time-temperature curve, resistivity data were transformed to temperature by the resistivity- temperature program. Direct reading and linear regression methods were used to calculate the equilibrium temperature, which were regressed against the depth of the probes in sediment to derive the geothermal gradient. Then, heat flow was calculated as the product of geothermal gradient and thermal conductivity of sediments. The heat flow values on the basis of the two methods were similar (i.e., 67.27 mW/m2 and 63.99 mW/m2, respectively). The results are consistent with the measurements carried out at adjacent sites. The age of the Lomonosov Ridge predicted by the heat flow-age model was 62 Ma, which is in accordance with the inference that the ridge was separated from Eurasia at about 60 Ma. Key words: heat flow, geothermal gradient, Chinese National Arctic Expedition, Lomonosov Ridge Citation: Xiao Wentao, Zhang Tao, Zheng Yulong, Gao Jinyao. 2013. Heat flow measurements on the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 32(12): 25–30, doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0384-3 1 Introduction 86°30′N) includes a series of complicated sub-parallel ridges Few heat flow data are available for the high