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In one way (ice wedging), water gets into cracks in the rock, then freezes. This force can eventually split the rock crystals.
In another (moving ice), a glacier or other large mass of ice moves across the rocks surface. This can scour away loose rock by friction. (It does not require that there be imbedded rocks, but this can also occur, where rocks are pushed together until one breaks.)
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agowhen ice is in its liquid state known as water it goes into the cracks of the rock and freezes and when water turns t ice it expands, to prove this take a plastic bottle of water and put it in the freezer, and as it expands it takes up more space until the rock breaks into small pieces called sediment.
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∙ 7y agoThe heavy weight of the underside of the glacier scrapes and crushes rocks the glacier passes over.
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What type of rocks weather and erode to form sedimentary rocks?
all of them
What types of rocks weather?
All types of rock on the surface will weather.
Why do you think weather is used to refer to the breakdown of rocks?
Because water and air are a form of weather and they both break down rocks.
What is chemical weathering of rocks?
Where rocks get either smoothed out or layers taken of by the weather.
Why can air water and ice break rocks into tiny fragments?
because it falls into little ice and formes into rocks and turns solid.
Why does the peak of a mountain weather faster than the rocks at the bottom of the mountain?
they are exposed to more wind,rain,and ice than the rocks at lower elevation
Which is denser regular ice or ice with rocks in it?
Ice with rocks in it.
How does ice cause the weathering of rocks?
When water in the ground freezes, the ice expands and breaks off very small amounts of rock. The ice causes abrasion of the rocks causing grooves and cracks. Water then enters these openings and freezes causing the rocks to break open, exposing more sides to the weather and continuing the breakdown.
Why does temperature weather rocks?
Expansion & contraction. But that's tiny compared to the expansion of water into ice (which is also a function of temperature).
How can ice weather a rock?
In one way (ice wedging), water gets into cracks in the rock, then freezes. This force can eventually split the rock crystals. In another (moving ice), a glacier or other large mass of ice moves across the rocks surface. This can scour away loose rock by friction. (It does not require that there be imbedded rocks, but this can also occur, where rocks are pushed together until one breaks.)
How ice can weather rock?
In one way (ice wedging), water gets into cracks in the rock, then freezes. This force can eventually split the rock crystals. In another (moving ice), a glacier or other large mass of ice moves across the rocks surface. This can scour away loose rock by friction. (It does not require that there be imbedded rocks, but this can also occur, where rocks are pushed together until one breaks.)
What kind of weather can break up rocks?
All weather can and will break up rocks.
What is a chemical or physical process in which rocks exposed to the weather are worn down by water wind or ice?
Smaller particles of rock are produced from larger particles.
What type of rock would tend to weather faster?
Normally, sedimentary rocks weather more rapidly than igneous or metamorphic rocks due to the ability of water to attack the cementing material and the ability of ice, water and plant roots to attack and separate the depositional layers.
Why does the peak of a mountain weather faster than the rock at the bottom of the mountain?
they are exposed to more wind,rain,and ice than the rocks at lower elevation
What is the name for something with no ice?
Would you like your drink neat or on the rocks? -->> neat = without ice just as it is on the rocks = with ice
What does ice do to rocks?
It breaks from ice wedging
