This results because of the intense heating of the rock’s outer layers. Since rocks are poor conductors of heat, the inner layer remain unaffected by heat., The alternate freezing and melting of water inside the joins of the rocks, split them into fragments., A successive heating and cooling which causes the expansion and contraction of rocks in block form., The process in which atmospheric oxygen reacts with the rock to produce oxides. The greatest impacts of this process is observed on ferrous (iron) minerals., Mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport by wind, glacier, waves, gravity, running water or erosion., The process by which various types of carbonates are formed. Some of the carbonates are soluble in water., The process in which some of the minerals get dilluted in water (halite), The process by which water is absorbed by the minerals of the rocks and its volume increases and the grains lose their shape.,

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