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Matthew Dorsey is an earth science editor at Biology Insights with a focus on landforms and planetary geology. He brings 17 years of editorial experience, having written explanatory science features for digital publications. Dorsey studied geology at Plymouth State University and tends a small perennial flower garden at home.

What Do the Equinoxes Signify Scientifically and Culturally?Earth & Space
Are All Rocks Made of Minerals?Earth & Space
How Long Did It Take for South America and Africa to Split?Earth & Space
How Do Joints Differ From Faults?Earth & Space
Where Are Most Modern Divergent Plate Boundaries Found?Earth & Space
What Are Oceanic Plates Made Of?Earth & Space
Where Are the Majority of Transform Faults Located?Earth & Space
What Materials Make Up Earth’s Biosphere?Environment
Which Time Period Covered More Than 80% of Earth’s History?Earth & Space
Is Andesite an Intrusive or Extrusive Rock?Earth & Space
If You Drilled a Hole Through the Earth, Where Would You Come Out?Earth & Space
What Are Some Major Events in Earth’s Geologic History?Earth & Space
Can Fossil Fuels Only Be Found in Sedimentary Rocks?Earth & Space
Is the Crust the Thinnest Layer of the Earth?Earth & Space
What Is the Pressure of the Earth’s Crust?Earth & Space
What Are the Three Main Types of Stress in Geology?Earth & Space
What Is the Temperature of the Earth’s Crust?Earth & Space
How Much Weight Can the Earth Hold?Physics
What Does a Geophysicist Study?Earth & Space
How Many Eons Are There in the Geologic Time Scale?Earth & Space
What Are 5 Fascinating Facts About Earth?Earth & Space
Where Does Old Seafloor Sink Back Into the Earth?Earth & Space
What Form Is Carbon Found in the Atmosphere?Earth & Space
How Much Does a Tectonic Plate Weigh?Earth & Space
What Do Weathering and Erosion Have in Common?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If You Dug Straight Through the Earth?Earth & Space
What Does Tectonic Mean in Geology?Earth & Space
What First Caused People to Consider Continental Drift?Earth & Space
What Breaks Rocks Into Smaller Pieces?Earth & Space
What Is Fiery About Igneous Rocks?Earth & Space