Mechanical weathering.
Yes, potholes can be caused by weathering in tropical regions. Weathering processes such as rainfall, high temperatures, and humidity can contribute to the deterioration of roads and create potholes over time. The combination of heavy rainfall and intense sunlight can accelerate the weathering process and lead to the formation of potholes in tropical regions.
There are several causes of landscape spoilage. A few examples are, landfills, oil spills, fires, sewage spills, littering, and composting.
Weathering is important because it breaks down rock into smaller particles, contributing to the formation of soil. This soil provides essential nutrients for plant growth and plays a crucial role in supporting diverse ecosystems. Weathering also helps shape the Earth's surface by causing erosion and forming landforms.
weathering is not the same as eroding!!! but it is when something brakes down or gets smaller naturally (preferably rocks). Physical weather: you can have: freeze thaw which is when water gets into a crack, freezes over night (when water freeze it expands) pushes the crack open a bit more, then more water comes in a this keeps happening until it cracks in 1/2. Physical Weathering: onion skin weathering usually happens is the dessert: the rock get so hot in the day and expands, then quickly gets freezing cold at night and contract (after many night of this happening, it sheds the outer layer, like an onion skin, and this keep happening). Warning: this happens after a very very long period of time. Chemical Weathering: chemical weathering is when acid rain or chemical in the river etc react with mineral in rocks (( usually in sedimentary rocks)). Biological Weathering: this is when roots of plants grow into rock cracks, prizing open the cracks more and more. it is also when small animal burrow into cracks etc. there are more types but these are the major ones! hope this helps :)
The type of rain that occurs when heating causes air to rise is called convective rainfall. This happens when warm air at the surface heats up and rises, cools down as it reaches higher altitudes, and eventually condenses to form raindrops.
The type of weathering that causes the peeling of large curved sheets from a rock is known as exfoliation weathering. This occurs when outer layers of rock are stripped away due to expansion and contraction caused by temperature changes.
Exfoliation weathering causes the peeling of large curved sheets from a rock. This type of weathering occurs due to the expansion and contraction of rock layers in response to temperature changes, leading to the outer layers flaking off in curved sheets.
•Aeolian • •Biological weathering • •Exfoliation • •Thermal Expansion
EXFOLIATION
In Mica, exfoliation is a common form of physical weathering where thin sheets of mica peel off due to changes in pressure and temperature. In Shale, frost wedging is a common type of physical weathering where ice expands in cracks, causing the rock to break apart.
In some case chemical weathering can cause this (where new crystals form from old ones but where the volume of the new crystals is not the same as the original). In other cases the weathering process is temperature driven by water entering the porous layer of a weathering rock and freezing. This can split the rock parallel to the surface, giving it exfoliation layers. Some texts also imply that exfoliation domes are produced by by removal of vertical pressure relieving paleo stresses in the rock, this however would not be a weathering process.
Decompression and Exfoliation weathering are common in Mica and Shale.
freeze and thaw, exfoliation and abrasion
The type of weathering that occurs due to the release of pressure is called exfoliation weathering. This process involves the outer layers of rocks peeling away in sheets due to the reduction of pressure on the rock surface.
This type of weathering is known as mechanical or physical weathering. It occurs when rocks expand and contract due to changes in temperature, which can cause them to crack and break apart over time.
Therew is only to types of weathering in my knowledge and they are Mechanical and Chemical (in scientific term). Mechanical is also know as physical.
Mechanical weathering - Disintegration - breaks down into smaller pieces, no new substance. Frost Action, Abrasion, Gravity, Organic Activity, Wetting and Drying, and Joint Sheeting are the six major causes of mechanical weathering.