GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Weathering is the breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on Earths surface. Once a rock has been broken down, a process called erosion transports the bits of rock and minerals away. Water, acids, salt, plants, animals, and changes in temperature are all agents of weathering and erosion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Physical weathering, also called mechanical weathering, is a process that causes the disintegration of rocks, mineral, and soils without chemical change. The primary process in physical weathering is abrasion (the process by which clasts and other particles are reduced in size).

Detailed explanation-3: -Sometimes called mechanical weathering, physical weathering is the process that breaks rocks apart without changing their chemical composition. These examples illustrate physical weathering: Swiftly moving water. Rapidly moving water can lift, for short periods of time, rocks from the stream bottom.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sun, rain, frost, and wind are breaking down even the most solid of the rocks into smaller bits before they are taken away. This process is termed as weathering.

Detailed explanation-5: -Weathering is the action of components of weather and climate materials over Earth. There are several processes within weathering which act either independently or together to affect the materials of the earth in order to cut them to fragmental state.