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  • 16-03-2020
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Explain how water freezing and thawing causes weathering and the type of weathering it would be considered.

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  • 15-03-2022

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it is called mechanical weathering.

When water freezes in a crack in rock, the rock slowly expands and makes the crack bigger. When the ice melts, the water seeps into the crack. With repeated freezing and thawing, the rock slowly expands until pieces of rock break off. … This release of pressure causes the outside f the rock to crack and flake off.

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