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Exogenic processes:
Break down rocks
erode rock materials
Transport them from high energy locations to
low energy locations
Deposition
Carbon dioxide
WEATHERING
Chemical weathering
Three types of chemical
weathering:
Oxidation
Chemical union of oxygen
atoms with another
substance to create a
new product
Solution and carbonation
Hydrolysis
What is a likely chemical
formula for the reddish-
orange substance?
WEATHERING
Chemical weathering
Solution and carbonation Why does the rock near the
Carbonation bottom of the outcrop seem
Carbon dioxide and to be more weathered than
water molecules that at the top?
reacting with, and
decomposing rocks
Most effective on
carbonate rocks
(limestone)
Hydrolysis How does the fact that
lichens retain moisture also
Water alone reacts with
contribute to weathering?
rocks
VARIABILITY IN WEATHERING
Effectiveness of
Weathering
Climate
Type of rock
Nature and amount
of fractures
VARIABILITY IN WEATHERING
Climate
Chemical weathering
dominates humid
regions
Slopes in wetter
climates have a
rounded appearance
What other
constructed features
might be changed by
creep?
MASS WASTING
Slow mass wasting
Solifluction
Most common in high
latitudes or high
elevation tundra regions
Permafrost
Active layer
Summer thaw
Tundra landscapes
Avalanches
Slides
Flows