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Is feldspar mixing with acidic groundwater and producing clay minerals chemical or weathering?
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This is a chemical process.
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What kind of weathering is feldspar mixing with water and producing clay minerals?
Chemical Weathering
Feldspar mixing with water and producing clay minerals is mechanical or chemical?
chemical
How does arkose form?
Arkose is formed from the weathering of feldspar-rich igneous metamorphic granitic rocks. They are usually composed of quartz and feldspar called 'grus'.
Which of the processes is not an example of chemical weathering?
A. dissolution of calcite B. breaking down of feldspar to form clay C. splitting of a rock along a fracture D. rusting of a nail E. All are examples of chemical weathering *I have read the book and researched I need help finding this please. I wouldn't be asking if I didn't knew... no rude answers*
Where do sand and clay come from?
Sand, silt, and clay result from the weathering of existing rock into smaller particles.
What kind of weathering is feldspar mixing with water and producing clay minerals?
Chemical Weathering
When potassium feldspar is weathering by water into kaolinite the process is called what?
Chemical weathering.
What does chemical weathering of feldspar produce?
clay minerals
What does the chemical weathering of feldspar produce?
clay minerals
What is the product of the chemical weathering of potassium feldspar?
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The chemical weathering of feldspar produces?
Clay minerals.
Feldspar mixing with water and producing clay minerals is mechanical or chemical?
chemical
What mineral forms from the chemical weathering of feldspar?
The clay mineral Kaolinite - Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
Clay minerals silica and dissolved potassium bicarbonate in the soil water are products of which process?
chemical weathering of orthoclase feldspar
What is the most common end product of chemical weathering of feldspar?
Feldspar breaks down giving us Al, Si and O in solution. You also get clay minerals left behind.
What kind of weathering do acids and oxygen cause?
It reacts with The minerals in The rocks, such as in feldspar.
Is feldspar pink?
Feldspar minerals comes in a variety of colors and chemical formulas. The most common pink feldspar is orthoclase.
