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How does freezing and thawing cause rocks to break into smaller pieces?
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∙ 14y ago
Water manages to get into a crack in a rock, and with cold temperatures, freezes. When transferring from a liquid to a solid, the molecules of water expand by crystallization, widening the crack in the rock.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThis is called frost wedging. What happens is that liquid seeps into the rock, and when it freezes it expands and over time as this over and over it will break the rock.
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