Mechanical Weathering
About This Item
Image of a large boulder that has been split by a large tree fragment. The photo demonstrates mechanical weathering, or the process by which rock gets broken down into smaller pieces by physical and non-chemical processes.
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- Pestrong, Ray
- Date
- Type
- Slide
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- TIF
- Source
- Ray Pestrong Geosciences Slide Collections, San Francisco State Unviersity
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- Public
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