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Christina Rhodes, BS, is an earth science writer on the editorial staff at Biology Insights. A certified public high school teacher, Rhodes still supervises student geology fieldwork each semester. She received her undergraduate degree in earth science education.

How Does a Rock’s Surface Area Relate to Chemical Weathering?
What Is the Chemical Composition of the Earth’s Crust?
What Causes a Surface Wave? From Water to Earth
Why Is a Lot of Iridium Evidence of an Asteroid Impact?
Which Type of Crust Is Usually the Oldest?
What Is the Pattern of Seafloor Age in the Ocean Basins?
What Is Essential for an Artesian Water System to Develop?
Are Continents Floating? The Science of Isostasy
What Is Banding in Metamorphic Rocks?
Why Is the Geologic Time Scale More Detailed in the Phanerozoic?
When Did the Hadean Eon End and Why?
What Evidence Do We Have of Past Plate Motion?
What Ideas Brought a Renewed Interest to Continental Drift?
How Can Subsidence Lead to the Formation of Sedimentary Rock?
What Is Subduction and How Does It Work?
Is Anorthosite an Intrusive or Extrusive Rock?
What Is the Modern Theory for Orogenesis?
What Causes the Tectonic Plates to Move?
What Does Relative Age Mean in Geology?
How Does the Law of Crosscutting Explain the Age of a Fault?
What Is Correlation in Geology and How Is It Done?
How to Measure Strike and Dip in the Field
What Is the Significance of an Unconformity?
What Is an Angular Unconformity and How Does It Form?
Is Migmatite Foliated or Nonfoliated?
How Can the Topography of a Region Affect the Rate of Weathering?
Is Granite a Good Aquifer? The Science of Fractured Rock
How Is Continental Lithosphere Different From Oceanic Lithosphere?
What Would Happen If the Core of the Earth Cooled?
Why Is the Rock Cycle Important to the Earth?