Table 1 Heat flow measurements using the FIELAX probe (11 thermistors*) in the Wagner and Consag basins.

Station	Latitude		Longitude		Depth	Sea bottom temperature	Heat flow	Error (%)
	(°N)	(min N)	(°W)	(min W)	(m)	(°C)	(mW m⁻²)
1	30	32.807	113	59.204	178	15	16	22.84
2	31	6.653	114	6.822	123	18	2,907	0.01
3	31	3.716	114	5.183	98	20	7,115	0.01
4	31	7.800	114	12.533	116	17	892	0.22
5	31	0.183	114	16.616	97	18	1,216	2.13
6	30	58.800	114	12.317	214	15	42	3.89
7	31	1.200	114	9.983	213	15	27	2.24
8	30	49.500	114	15.267	98	19	229	2.46
9	30	39.768	114	13.319	102	18	163	0.23
10	30	43.310	114	8.015	193	14	310	0.71
11	30	46.034	114	3.629	129	16	533	3.85
12	30	47.993	113	59.043	95	28	1,369	6.97
13	30	50.651	113	59.988	84	20	1,206	0.24
13A	30	50.649	113	59.982	83	20	1,121	4.88
14^†	31	3.701	114	5.119	91	27	15,436	0.84
15	31	3.535	114	4.628	82	20	1,450	2.49
16	30	59.752	114	3.959	95	18	621	0.63
17	30	55.080	114	2.284	91	19	859	0.42
18	30	50.519	114	0.005	88	20	2,053	0.44
19	30	40.634	113	55.364	116	17	416	1.45
20	30	38.904	113	55.104	123	16	709	5.48
21	30	36.824	113	54.323	115	17	2,559	2.24

^*In all measurements there was full penetration of the probe, which allowed measuring sea bottom temperature.
^†In station 14 the six thermistors below 3 m went off scale because the temperature was above their maximum temperature range (60 °C). See Supplementary Fig. S1.

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