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What type of frost action occurs when a water filled crack in a rock widens from the freezing and thawing of the water?
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The freezing and thawing action of water affects a rock by?
Water seeps into cracks in the rock, and when freezing occurs, the water expands, thus making the crack slightly larger. This process is called mechanical weathering.
What is the geological definition of the word slump?
A slump is defined as a mass wasting that occurs when a rock mass or clump of loose earth moves down a slope. A lot of time this occurs because of earthquakes or freezing and thawing.
At a constant pressure freezing occurs by what?
releasing energy
Freezing and thawing cycle that causes potholes in roads and breaks in rocks?
Freeze/thaw cycle doesn't create potholes. It creates cracks on pavement. Potholes form when water, whether from melting snow, rain or frost thawing gets into the cracks in the pavement and cause the road base to shift and develop voids just under the pavement. When this occurs, the weight of vehicles causes the pavement to crumble causing potholes.
How does mass movement occur?
creep mass movement occurs where ice wedging takes place.(ice wedging means the ground is freezing and thawing over and over again) As the ground freezes, it expands the water in the soil to push up the sediments. when the ground thaws out all the sediments will fall downslope. Creep is a slow process.
What type of frost action occurs when a crack ina rock widens from the freezing and thawing of water?
ice wedging
What type of Frost action occurs When a water filled crack in a rock widens from the frezzing and thawing of the water?
ice wedging i think
The freezing and thawing action of water affects a rock by?
Water seeps into cracks in the rock, and when freezing occurs, the water expands, thus making the crack slightly larger. This process is called mechanical weathering.
Do the ice caves in antarctica melt and create lots of water?
Yes. Thawing occurs during the months without sunsets, and then re-freezing occurs during the months without sunrises.
What is the geological definition of the word slump?
A slump is defined as a mass wasting that occurs when a rock mass or clump of loose earth moves down a slope. A lot of time this occurs because of earthquakes or freezing and thawing.
Which type of mass movement occurs when sediments slowly move downhill because freezing and thawing?
The process in which sediments move slowly downhill, is called creep. It is common where freezing and thawing occur. As ice expands in soil, it pushed sediments up. Then as soil thaws, the sediments move farther downslope. Over time, creep can move large amounts of sediment, possibly causing damage to some structures
Freezing is the phase change that occurs when a changes into a?
Freezing is the phase change that occurs when a liquidchanges into a solid.
What is the temperature that freezing occurs?
This is called the melting (or freezing) point
Why do salt crystal grow mostly occurs in drier regions?
Because there is less amount of rainfall and temperature that could combine together to accelerate weathering process in drier regions. Therefore, thawing and freezing that could occur there lead to crystallization of salt.
What temp does freezing rain occur?
Freezing rain occurs when the temputer ins below freezing
A change of what occurs during both freezing and melting?
A change of solid occurs during both freezing and melting.
What occurs at the freezing point of a substance?
At the freezing point a substance become a solid.
