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Does water contract when it freezes causing frost wedging?
No, frost wedging is caused by water expanding, not contracting.
What is it called when water in rocks freezes?
This process could either be called Freezing/Thawing or Ice Wedging. Ice Wedging splits the rock when water seeps into cracks then freezes and expands.
What is it called when water enters a crack in a rock and freezes?
Ice Wedging Or Frost Wedging
What is another name for frost wedging?
Another name for frost wedging is ice wedging. This process occurs when water freezes in cracks and crevices in rocks, causing them to expand and eventually break apart.
Types of mechanical weathering?
Frost wedging
Is frost wedging chemical or physical?
physical
What is an-example-of-physical weathering?
frost wedging
What is the one type of frost action?
The one type of frost action is frost wedging, which occurs when water seeps into cracks in rocks, freezes, and expands, causing the rock to break apart.
What process is not related to chemical weathering?
frost wedging
What is is the common kind of mechanical weathering?
frost wedging ?
Is ice wedging the same as frost wedging?
Yes, ice wedging and frost wedging are terms often used interchangeably to describe the mechanical weathering process where water seeps into cracks in rocks, freezes, and expands, causing the rocks to break apart.
Frost wedging is a form of Chemical Mechanical or Biological weathering?
Frost wedging is a form of mechanical weathering caused by the repeated freezing and thawing of water in cracks in rocks.
