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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 Do Holes in Igneous Rocks Indicate About Cooling?
How Did Scientists Discover the Layers of the Earth?
How Is Asbestos Formed in the Earth?
What Produces Plunging Folds in Geology?
Why Do Tectonic Plates Move in Different Directions?
Where Do Igneous Rocks With a Fine-Grained (Aphanitic) Texture Form?
Why Are Metamorphic Rocks Formed Near Plate Boundaries?
How Seafloor Sediment Reveals Earth’s Climate History
What Do Mud Cracks and Ripple Marks Indicate About the Geologic Past?
What Did Hutton and Lyell Conclude About Earth’s History?
What Is a Batholith and How Is One Formed?
What Causes the P-Wave Shadow Zone?
What Is the Difference Between Brittle and Ductile Deformation?
What Does a Higher Percentage of Daughter Isotopes Mean?
What Causes Bedrock to Weather at Different Rates?
What Does Stratigraphy Mean in Geology?
Does Sunlight Cause Erosion or Just Weathering?
What Is the Gutenberg Discontinuity?
What Features Form When Rocks Bend?
What Is the Mohorovičić Discontinuity?
How Did Continental Rifting Break Up Pangaea?
Why Do Metamorphic Rocks Form at Subduction Zones?
What Are Supercontinents and How Do They Form?
What Is Gravity’s Role in Plate Tectonics?
How Is Density Related to the Layers of the Earth?
What Happened to Create an Unconformity?
What Is the Difference Between a Dike and a Sill?
What Evidence Did Alfred Wegener Use for Continental Drift?
How Did Antarctica Freeze? The Birth of an Ice Sheet
What Processes Can Recycle Sedimentary Rock Into Sediment?