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Do rocks crack if they are subject to many hard frosts?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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yes, frost is thicker than water, so as the water fills in the microscopic cracks and freezes, the cracks grow and grow until eventually it splits, then those split, then those, and it goes on until the rock is microscopic peices

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