winds,temperature,frost,water
Biological weathering
Mechanical weathering in the Sahara is mainly caused by the wind. Other weathering is also caused by freezing temperatures and extreme heat.
WEATHERING
Mechanical weathering caused by grains of sand is called sand abrasion.
If you meant weathering that is caused by water; physical weathering is the answer.
because iits formed by it difrent minarels
weathering, there are four types of weathering, chemical weathering, caused by acid rain, onion skin weathering, caused by change in temperature eg in the dessert it's boiling at day and freezing at night, freeze-thaw weathering, caused by water freezing and melting, expnding a crack inside a rock, and biological weathering, caused by plants and animals (including humans) eg walking on stone steps again will eventually wear it.
Four types of weathering that can occur without water include mechanical weathering caused by temperature changes, chemical weathering due to oxygen in the air, biological weathering from plant roots and burrowing animals, and physical weathering caused by wind abrasion.
The three factors that affect weathering are mechanical weathering (physical breakdown of rocks), chemical weathering (chemical changes in rocks), and biological weathering (weathering caused by living organisms).
The Grand Canyon, which was caused by the mechanical weathering of the Colorado River.
No, desert pavement is caused by wind which is physical weathering.
Since it rarely rains in the Atacama, nearly all weathering would be physical weathering caused by the wind.