Earth's Internal Heat Drives Subglacial Melting in Greenland

Greenland’s lithosphere has hot depths, which originate in its distant geological past and cause Greenland’s ice to rapidly flow and melt from below.

To understand Greenland’s ice of today researchers have to go far back into Earth’s history. The island’s lithosphere has hot depths which originate in its distant geological past and cause Greenland’s ice to rapidly flow and melt from below. An anomaly zone crosses Greenland from west to east where present-day flow of heat from the Earth’s interior is elevated. With this anomaly, an international team of geoscientists…

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Earth"s Internal Heat Drives Subglacial Melting in Greenland