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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.

What Causes Lithospheric Plates to Move?
Cross Beds Are a Preserved Record of What?
What Is an Anticline? The Anatomy of an Upward Fold
How Plate Motion Forms Metamorphic Rock
Do S Waves Travel Through the Outer Core?
What Is the Relationship Between Continent Edges and Plate Boundaries?
What Are Inclusions in Rock Layers Used for Dating?
How Are Scientists Able to Study the Center of the Earth?
Is Shale a Detrital or Chemical Sedimentary Rock?
Is Clay Formation Mechanical or Chemical Weathering?
Are Porphyritic Rocks Intrusive or Extrusive?
How Are Faults, Foci, and Epicenters Related?
Is Dacite a Mafic or Felsic Rock?
How Does Intrusive Igneous Rock Form?
Is Oceanic Crust Denser Than Continental Crust?
How Does Burial Metamorphism Occur?
What Is a Lithospheric Plate?
What Are the Three Types of Metamorphism?
How Is an Arête Formed by Glacial Erosion?
How Does Coal Distribution Support the Theory of Continental Drift?
Why Is Blood Falls Red? The Science of Iron and Life
Who Came Up With the Theory of Seafloor Spreading?
What Is Strain in Geology? A Look at Rock Deformation
When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth?
What Keeps the Plate Edges From Sliding Smoothly Past Each Other?
Where Is the Youngest Crust on Earth Found?
What Is a Geologic Cross Section?
Is Quartz Sandstone a Clastic Sedimentary Rock?
Why Is It Important That Scientists Study Tectonic Plates?
What Are Cratons and Why Are They So Stable?