Weathering (5326 bytes)
1: ...[erosion]], which is the movement of rocks and/or weathering products by water, wind, ice or gravity.
3: The breakdown products, after chemical weathering of rock and sediment minerals and the [[leaching]...
5: == Mechanical Weathering ==
6: ...ragments (like [[scree]]) as compared to chemical weathering.
28: == Chemical Weathering ==

Spheroidal weathering (1960 bytes)
1: ... much smaller scale. A good example of spheroidal weathering can be found in the [[Alabama Hills]] area of eas...
3: ...onal Park]]. [[Exfoliation]] is a related type of weathering that aids in dome creation.
5: ...l weathering is slower than other common types of weathering such as [[frost wedging]], and it becomes lower s...

Chemical weathering (1147 bytes)

Mushroom rocks (833 bytes)
2: ...part of the rock is more resistant to erosion and weathering, it will erode more slowly than the base.

Rock shelter (855 bytes)
5: ...but a softer stratum, more subject to erosion and weathering, lies just below the resistant stratum, and thus ...

Limestone pavement (1024 bytes)
3: ...ne]] showing the effects of [[weathering]]. Since weathering action is always more pronounced along cracks and...

Silt (1724 bytes)
3: ...weathering that results in clays. This mechanical weathering can be due to grinding by [[glacier]]s, [[eolian]...

Devil's Marbles Conservation Reserve (2785 bytes)
5: ==Geology and weathering==
6: ...weathering (which cracked the rocks) and chemical weathering (which flaked the surface off).
8: ...s since stripped away the overlying material, and weathering processes have shaped them into the "marbles" as...

Moolooite (448 bytes)
1: ...rmed by the interaction of [[bat]] [[guano]] with weathering [[copper sulphides]].

Soil profile (1703 bytes)
13: ...s down at the upper surface due to the effects of weathering and decay. The nature of the original parent mate...
18: ...s, constant movement occurs between them due to [[weathering]], water movement, and the actions of [[soil life...

Cliff (1544 bytes)
3: ...gy)|rock]] that is resistant to [[erosion]] and [[weathering]]. [[Sedimentary rock]]s most likely to form cli...

Denudation (456 bytes)
1: ...ical process which involves the [[erosion]] and [[weathering]] of landscapes, resulting in the physical loweri...

Pedogenesis (507 bytes)
6: [[weathering]]

Adirondack (Mars) (2024 bytes)
7: ...h does not survive weathering well. The lack of [[weathering]] suggested by the presence of olivine might be e...

Clay (2303 bytes)
3: ...rust. Clay is generally formed by the chemical [[weathering]] of silicate-bearing rocks by [[carbonic acid]],...
7: ...>.</sup>nH₂O, is typically formed as a weathering product of low silica rocks. Montmorillonite is a...

Tea table (630 bytes)
3: ...the base due to greater resistance to erosion and weathering. Sometimes these occur just beyond bluffs or [[c...

Regolith (771 bytes)
1: ...auses of regolith on [[Earth]] are [[erosion]], [[weathering]] and [[biota|biological processes]]. On Earth, r...

Exfoliation (778 bytes)
4: * In [[geology]], exfoliation is a [[weathering]] process, mainly caused by [[freeze-thaw]] cycle...

Biogeology (892 bytes)
3: ...mposition]] of the [[atmosphere]] which affects [[weathering]] rates of [[rock (geology)|rock]]s.

Karelidit (769 bytes)
1: ...tood there not caring of [[ice age]]s consume and weathering. Mountains in the very arm-Lapland belong to the ...

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