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In environments where water is readily available and temperatures drop below freezing for some part of the day what physical weathering process is likely to be significant?
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In this environment frost shattering or frost wedging is a significant weathering process. The water in the pores in the rock freezes at night and the ice expands as this happens forcing small cracks in the rock to widen and the rock to shatter.
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