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Q: What type of weathering is caused by the grinding away of large rocks by rock particles that are carried by water ice wind or gravity?
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What is the meaning of the scientific term abrasion?

It means the grinding away of a rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.


How the products of weathering being carried away by soil erosion?

Water, gravity, and wind.


What is the process that happens when small pieces of sediment are carried away?

It is the process of erosion, carried out by the agents of wind, water, ice, and gravity.


How weathering and erosion work together?

how can water and gravity work together to erode soil, sediment, and rock


Which process involves removal of rock particles by wind water ice or gravity?

Erosion it also means abrasion, which does with weathering


Gravity chemcial weathering?

Chemical weathering means that rocks are worn down by chemical reactions. This is unrelated to gravity.


Gravity of chemcial weathering?

Chemical weathering means that rocks are worn down by chemical reactions. This is unrelated to gravity.


Do subatomic particles have gravity?

Subatomic particles do have gravity. However, their gravity is very small.


What are the forces that cause weathering?

Gravity.


How would hurricanes cause weathering or erosion?

Hurricanes cause erosion or weathering because, hurricanes are forms of large water. Water is one of the agents of weathering next to wind, ice and gravity. Water(in hurricanes) can pick up sediment and rock particles and spread them or move them into different places.


What are two causes of physical weathering?

Gravity and water are two causes of physical weathering.


How is shale formed?

Shale is formed as a result of many processes. The first process involves the weathering and erosion of existing silicate rock, usually igneous or metamorphic in nature, and what would normally appear in a weathering mountain range. The weathering of this rock creates clay and silt sized particles which are transported down slope by the erosion from wind, moving water, gravity, and ice. These small particles are carried the farthest from their point of origin, and settle out from suspension in the water or wind in a process known as deposition. As more and more sediment layers are added over great lengths of time, the particles of sediment are compacted by the weight from above and the clay particles become loosely interlocked into a rock with thin depositional layering - shale.