New Study Finds Mantle Plumes, Not Global Warming, Cause of Ice Melt

by Mitch Battros – April 2016 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 accelerated ‘mantle plumes’ … Continue reading →