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Can rust crumble easily?
Yes it crumbles easily. It is also very difficult to get off
Why can't limestone turn into slate?
Limestone is composed of the minute skeletal remains of sea creatures. Slate is the compressed mud and silt deposited on the sea floor. Both limestone and slate have been subjected to tremendous pressure and have become stone. Slate easily splits into sheets and can be used as a roofing material. Limestone can be used as a building material, and as hardcore in the construction and road making industries.
Does limestone rocks dissolve easily?
Limestone is chemically reactive with acids, and due to naturally acidic rain and acids picked up from the soil in groundwater, it is more susceptible than other common rocks to chemical weathering
Why would it be more likely to find a cave with limestone bedrock than granite?
Limestone forms in such a way that there are often blocks, as there are cracks perpendicular to the strata. These cracks allow water to actually flow. When the water flows, it dissolves calcite from the limestone, making the crack more pronounced. Water can flow vertically and horizontally in this way. This, after many years, erodes large caverns in the rock.
What is it called to be easily influenced?
Gullible
What is it called when something crumbles or breaks easily?
It is called brittle.
Can rust crumble easily?
Yes it crumbles easily. It is also very difficult to get off
What do you call a material that crumbles or breaks easily?
Brittle or friable.
What types of bedrock are dissolved most easily by running water?
Limestone and Marble Limestone and Marble
Why do we quarry limestone?
Because limestone is a very intimmadate stone that you can break up easily.
Can limestones crumb easily?
Limestone is a rock that is about 10 percent of the total amount of all the rock formations. Limestone can be very soluble and tends to erode easily. When erosion starts the limestone can be crumbly.
what type of rock is weathered easily?
Shale & Limestone !
List two kinds of rock that are easily weathered by carbonic acid?
Limestone is the rock that is most easily broken down by carbonic acid. Marble is another rock that is susceptible to carbonic acid.
Does limestone weather slowly or quickly?
Relative to other rock types, limestone is on the 'easily weathered' end of the scale.
Is limestone sometimes used as roofing material?
It has been, but limestone is prone to weathering, and is easily damaged by air pollution.
What are two types of rock that easily get wetherd by acid?
Limestone and chalk get easily weathered by acid.
What is the most easily weathered type of rock?
Shale & Limestone !
