A KU researcher has discovered that the thickness of the Earth's crust, not just global warming, is contributing to the melting of glaciers in Greenland.

Kees van der Veen, associate professor of geography, and his collaborators presented their findings recently at the American Geophysical Society in San Francisco. In the northeast part of Greenland's ice sheet is an "ice stream," a fast-moving channel carrying ice from as far as 400 miles inland to sea.

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