GLY 2010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frost Heaving, Hydrolysis, Frost Weathering
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Regolith- broken pieces of rock: when a regolith gets transported, it becomes deposited. In mixed size clasts, tinier particles get picked off: called sediment sorting through transportation. Erosion: physical breakup of rock, mechanical ex- muslides. Everything diso;ves in water due to water covalence and resonation. Frost weathering a form of physical weathering that involves the repeated freezing and thawing of water in areas with extremely cold weather. Leaching- water flowing over rocks picking up chemical material. Granite wedging by water: exfoliation- rock being weathered like peeling off sheets instead of grain by grain, granular disintegration.
