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| the acid, H2CO3, formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water, known in the form of its salts and esters, the carbonates. |
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[image]Chemical Weathering |
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| Weathering that occurs when erosion turns a material into a different chemical. |
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| to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced. |
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| the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc. |
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| something that is exfoliated or scaled off. |
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| chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water. |
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| When water drips down cracks of rocks, freezes and then expands. |
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| 1. | the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope. |
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When an unstable load of something shifts i a ockward position causing a movement |
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| [image]Mechanical Weathering |
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| the erosion or breakdown of rock into smaller fragments by natural physical agents with no chemicals involved; also called disintegration |
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| a flow of mixed earth debris containing a large amount of water. |
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| the deposit that forms on the surface of a metal as it oxidizes |
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| Parent material, in soil science, means the underlying geological material (generally bedrock or a superficial or drift deposit) |
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Non-transported parent material is sometimes called residual parent material. This often refers to bedrock. |
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| Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface |
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| Erosion is the carrying away or displacement of solids |
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| soil horizon is a specific layer in the soil which measures parallel to the soil surface and possesses physical characteristics which differ from the layers above and beneath |
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| Subsoil (also called substrata) is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground |
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| Topsoil is the upper, outermost layer of soil, usually the top 2 to 8 inches. |
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| Soil that has been transferred to a different area by wind rain, or water |
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| Weathering is the decomposition of earth rocks, soils and their minerals through direct contact with the planet's atmosphere. |
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