The polar vortex, a low-pressure area near the Earth’s poles, influences winter weather in mid-latitude areas like Canada and France. When the vortex weakens, the risk of cold spells has been proven to increase in Eurasia, but the effects on North American weather is not clear. A group of meteorologists has studied nearly thirty years [...]
Author: Anthony Chen
Martian Magmatism From Plume Metasomatized Mantle: Summary
Recently, scientists were able to analyze the composition of Mars through the delivery of meteorites from Mars to Earth. These include shergottites that formed 165 to 2400 million years ago and 1.345 billion-year-old nakhlites and chassignites. These are all igneous rocks that come from the Martian mantle. They contain crystals older than the rock that [...]
Smallest Known Raptor Tracks Suggest Mocroraptorine Activity in Lakeshore Setting: Summary
Ongoing studies in a geological formation in South Korea have produced many different tracks, many of which were small and well-preserved. Now there is a report of diminutive two-toed tracks that are around one centimeter long. They are from a new dromaeosaurid(feathered theropod) trace fossil that is similar to a larger trace fossil found thirty [...]
