Well it truly depends on the type of rock but in intermediate school our teacher said it took about 1 million years
Depending on what rocks/minerals are involved, erosion of any surface can take anywhere from 5 minutes to millions of millions of years. Think of an ocean cliff. The ocean waves pound and pound at the cliff nonstop, but the cliff stays there. Over time, however, that cliff will break off, much like ice does in the arctic. On the other hand, a giant tsunami could crash into the side of the cliff and within seconds change the entire physical appearance.
That would depend on the size of the rock and its type. Some rock is more vulnerable to weathering and erosion than other types.
100,000 years or more depending on the size
It would depend on the amount of water, how fast the water is going, and the size and hardness of the rock.
It really depends on the environment and the conditions the stone is faced with.
Anywhere from a few minutes (soft sandstone) to billions of years (some granite).
It takes exactly one year.
Wind erosion is an ongoing process.
Actually an arch is formed using these steps: Step1:Waves crash against the cliff and erode joints in the cliff face this creates a small hole in the Cliff or a notch Step 2: Waves erode the notch making it bigger it is now a cave Step 3: The cave gets bigger and eventually punches a whole in the cliff forming an arch. Now that an arch has been made this is what will happen to the arch in the future! Step 4: the arch will eventually collapse due to further erosion and gravity the arch will collapse this leaves a pillar of rock disconnected from the land this is called a stack Step 5: The bottom of the stack is eroded between the high and low tide marks, unsupported chunks of rock will now collapse leaving a spindly structure called a Pinnacle. Step 6: eventually due to MORE erosion the pinnacle collapses leaving a stump
Sandstone can metamorphose into quartzite.
10,000,000+ years
thousands to millions of years
A wave erodes a sea cliff through a process called hydraulic action. When a wave crashes against the base of a cliff, it creates immense pressure that forces air into cracks and joints in the rock. This repeated pressure and release weakens the rock, causing pieces to break off and cliff to gradually erode over time.
Weathering and erosion very rarely takes minuets for weathering and erosion to take effect. It usually takes millions of years for a rock to get weathered and eroded.
a long time. Acid rain and other erosion methods erode the rock to form a cave then an arch then a stack
an object will fall at around 50ft every second, so around 3 seconds.
weathering and erosion
Granite is a very resilient type of rock and is not prone to much erosion. types of erosion that could occur to granite are acid rain, coastal erosion (weather and salt from the sea damaging it) and weather erosion. it would take an extremely long period of time for erosion to become apparent.
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Wind erosion is an ongoing process.
thousands of years
Generally speaking, the creation of clastic sedimentary rock is part of a long process of weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation that can take millions of years.
Solid rocks break into smaller pieces because weathering could take bits and pieces of the rock. Then erosion carries the rock to some were else. Finally deposition will drop the rock in that place were the erosion brought it.
erosion but it would take thousand of years