i) Exfoliation dome
ii) - In hot climate, where rocks high day temperatures cause the surface of the rocks to
expand
- Low night temperatures cause the surface of the rocks to contract.
- The inner parts remain cool as the expansion and contraction only takes place on the rock surface because rocks are poor conductors of heat.
- As the process is repeated over a long time a curved sheet of the tock/rock shall from the upper part break away from the upper part break away peeling off like onion peels.
- *This leaves a round rock mass called an exfoliation dome
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