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Why is it important to know and understand the qualities of various rock types?
If the rock is a soft one it will weather faster if it is a hard rock it will take longer to weather
What types of rocks weather?
All types of rock on the surface will weather.
What is weather resistant metamorphic rock?
Metamorphic rock that resists chemical and mechanical weathering, for example, the rock gneiss.
How acids in living things weather rocks?
The acids chemically weather rock by breaking up their chemical composition, which eventually causes the rock to lose mass by decomposition.
What factors determine how fast rocks will weather?
what is a elementary rock
How do oxygen chemically weather rocks?
There is no significant weathering from oxygen. However, the particles in the wind (oxygen) can weather a rock.
Is metamorphic rock weather proof?
No rock is "weather proof." All forms of rock will eventually be worn away (eroded) by the action of the weather.
What weather cause a Igneous rock to form?
igneos rock is formed when magma cools.not by weather
What determines the sequence of events in the rock cycle?
weather the rock is weather, eroded, or goes through deposition.
Can air weather a rock?
the force of air can erode a rock
What determines how fast a rock will weather?
Climate and the type of rock
Why is it important to know and understand the qualities of various rock types?
If the rock is a soft one it will weather faster if it is a hard rock it will take longer to weather
What layer contains the weather?
Troposphere contains weather. It also contains oxygen.
What layer contained weather?
Troposphere contains weather. It also contains oxygen.
What types of rocks weather?
All types of rock on the surface will weather.
What is carbonation How does it weather rock?
it is a chemical
How does mechanical weather change rock?
no
