When water freezes, it expands. This can cause rocks to crack or break, then the water thaws to create a visible gap in the rock. This is ice wedging.
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∙ 10y agoWater expands as it solidifies, so the ice exerts considerable pressure on the walls of the cavity that it fills.
The type of weathering that causes Ice Wedging is Mechanical/ Physical Weathering.
Yes it is the same thing
frost wedging is when water gets into a crack in a large rock and when ice freezes it expands and when it expands inside a rock it might break in half
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The type of weathering that causes Ice Wedging is Mechanical/ Physical Weathering.
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Ice wedging has 3 forms and they are Active, Inactive and Ice wedge Casts.
Ice wedging is a type of mechanical weathering.
The general term for this is "erosion".
Ice wedging breaks the rock apart. Water goes into cracks in the rock and when it freezes, it expands. This can cause rocks to split and eventually break. (see the related link)
It breaks from ice wedging
Yes it is the same thing
frost wedging is when water gets into a crack in a large rock and when ice freezes it expands and when it expands inside a rock it might break in half
Ice Wedging.
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