How can rocks be broken up by physical weathering?

      

How can rocks be broken up by physical weathering?

  

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Kavungya
- water enters cracks.
- Temperature falls below 00
- Water expands on freezing
- Pushes the rock with great force
- Repeating the process many times break the rock
Temperature changes –
- heating occurs and expansion of rock results
- Cooling occurs and contraction of rock,
- Other layer separates from the inner mass.
On loading
- rock is buried underneath at great pressure
- Erosion removes the over burden
- Rock expands on exposure
- Outer layer peels off.
Kavungya answered the question on May 28, 2019 at 10:53


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