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Climates that are warm and moist will produce more chemical weathering than do cool dry areas. Rocks in cold dry and hot dry areas/weather generally experience more mechanical weathering than chemical weathering.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 12y agoThat's a potentially complex answer. You need to look at the factors that control weathering - climate, slope, vegetation, overburden, bioturbation, rock mineralogy, rock structure, latitude, topography...
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∙ 11y agoThe reason it differs is because when it is at the top of a mountain, the air is much colder. The air penertrates the pours (holes) in the rocks and it causes it to slowly crack and eventually break completely.
At sea level it is not as cold, but when the water continuously hits the rocks, some of the particles in the rocks break away.
When a rock is warm, the Particles in it expand and when a rock is cold the particles in it contract. Because it is constantly expanding and contracting, it makes the rock weaker and eventually it will break.
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∙ 14y agoYes, it depends on the type of rocks, but in general rocks weather at a faster rate in areas were it is warmer and more moist.
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Chemical weathering would be most effective in what climate?
Chemical weathering is the most effective in hot and dry climates. This is because this climate accelerates and intensifies the chemical weathering.
What type of climate will have the fastest rate of weathering?
a moist dry climate
Uplift and weathering are two of the processes that shape the features of the earth how are they difference and how are they similar?
uplift-weathering hypothesis is a “proposal that chemical weathering is an active driver of climate change, rather than just a negative feedback that moderates climate". uplift-weathering hypothesis both discuss how chemical weathering is a negative feedback that moderates climate; however, the uplift hypothesis tries to say that chemical weathering is the active driver for climate change and not just a negative feedback
How fast weathering occurs depends on?
how fast weathering occurs depends on the CLIMATE of an area.
How could climate affect rates of mechanical weathering What about chemical weathering How are the two kinds of weathering related?
You can look it up in Uranus
Climate of chemical weathering?
Chemical weathering is most common in warm and wet climate.
Compare the weathering processes inn awarm humid climate with those in a dry cold climate?
in a warm humid climate it is mostly mechnical weathering but in a dry climate it is mostly chemical weathering.
What climate is the most conducive to rapid weathering?
The climate that is the most conducive to rapid weathering are tropical climates. They will have the fastest rate of weathering.
Chemical weathering would be most effective in what climate?
Chemical weathering is the most effective in hot and dry climates. This is because this climate accelerates and intensifies the chemical weathering.
Which climate has the fastest weathering?
rain
What kind of weathering is more rapid in a warm wet climate?
chemical weathering
WHAT ROLE DOES WEATHERING PLAY IN THE FORMATION OF WEATHERING?
weathering occurs faster in warm and rainy climate. the rate of which soil forms depends on the climate and type of rock. so soil formation is faster when weathering is quicker too.
What type of climate will have the fastest rate of weathering?
a moist dry climate
Uplift and weathering are two of the processes that shape the features of the earth how are they difference and how are they similar?
uplift-weathering hypothesis is a “proposal that chemical weathering is an active driver of climate change, rather than just a negative feedback that moderates climate". uplift-weathering hypothesis both discuss how chemical weathering is a negative feedback that moderates climate; however, the uplift hypothesis tries to say that chemical weathering is the active driver for climate change and not just a negative feedback
How fast weathering occurs depends on?
how fast weathering occurs depends on the CLIMATE of an area.
How does climate effect weathering?
Mechanical weathering refers to weathering that causes physical erosion of exposed rock without changing its chemical composition. Climate helps promote or prevent things like frost and wind that create this form of weathering.
How climate effects weathering?
Mechanical weathering refers to weathering that causes physical erosion of exposed rock without changing its chemical composition. Climate helps promote or prevent things like frost and wind that create this form of weathering.
