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What is the term for ice breaking apart a rock?
Ice wedging
How ice wedging can break apart?
Ice wedging can break apart rocks when water seeps in cracks of roads or rocks and continues freezes and thaws until the rock eventually creates a pot hole
When water breaks rock apart by entering crack and freezing then thawing what is it called?
Ice wedging
What are abrasion and ice wedging?
Ice wedging has 3 forms and they are Active, Inactive and Ice wedge Casts.
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.
Ice breaking apart a rock?
Ice Wedging.
What is the process by which ice widens and deepens cracks in rock in called?
The general term for this is "erosion".
What is the term for ice breaking apart a rock?
Ice wedging
What is it called when water enters a crack in a rock and freezes?
Ice Wedging Or Frost Wedging
How do plants mechanically weather rock?
The roots of certain plants can break or crack into a rock, making the rock more susceptible to frost wedging (ice wedging).
How doe ice wedging weathers rock?
Ice wedging breaks the rock apart. Water goes into cracks in the rock and when it freezes, it expands. This can cause rocks to split and eventually break. (see the related link)
What means the process by which ice widens and deepens cracks in a rock is called?
ice wedging
The breaking apart of rock by freezing and thawing is referred to as?
ice wedging
Is ice wedging a physical change?
the water freezing is physical change
Describe How ice wedging weathers rock?
Ice makes cracks in rocks laeger as it expands
Explain how ice-wedging can weather a rock?
When a piece of ice is wedged into a rock, it expands (because water expands when it freezes). As the ice expands, cracks are formed in the rock.
What are examples of ice wedging?
wedges of ice widen and deepen cracks in a rock, and can even break the rock into two at some point.
