Rock and Mineral Type Different rock types weather at different rates. Certain types of rock are very resistant to weathering. Other types of rock, such as limestone, are easily weathered because they dissolve in weak acids. Rocks that resist weathering remain at the surface and form ridges or hills.
Q. How is weathering caused?
Weathering and People Weathering is a natural process, but human activities can speed it up. For example, certain kinds of air pollution increase the rate of weathering. Burning coal, natural gas, and petroleum releases chemicals such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
Table of Contents
- Q. How is weathering caused?
- Q. Is the movement of weathered rocks by natural forces?
- Q. Which rock is most resistant to chemical weathering?
- Q. Which mineral is most resistant to erosion?
- Q. What mineral would be the most resistant to erosion?
- Q. Which is the least resistant mineral?
- Q. Which mineral is least resistant to weathering?
- Q. Is feldspar resistant to weathering?
- Q. Is salt crystallization chemical weathering?
Q. Is the movement of weathered rocks by natural forces?
Erosion is the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another. In geology, an agent is a force or material that causes a change in Earth’s surface. The material moved by erosion is sediment. Sediment may consist of pieces of rock or soil or the remains of plants and animals.
Q. Which rock is most resistant to chemical weathering?
quartz
Q. Which mineral is most resistant to erosion?
quartzite
Q. What mineral would be the most resistant to erosion?
This makes it unique among the minerals that are common in igneous rocks. Quartz is also very hard, and doesn’t have cleavage, so it is resistant to mechanical erosion.
Q. Which is the least resistant mineral?
Marble is composed of a mineral that is resistant to chemical weathering (quartz), whereas granite is composed of minerals less resistant to weathering (like calcite). Marble is composed of minerals that resist weathering well, whereas granite has less of these minerals.
Q. Which mineral is least resistant to weathering?
Stability of Common Minerals Under Weathering Conditions 1. Table 6.2: Iron oxides, Al-hydroxides, clay minerals and quartz are the most stable weathered products whereas highly soluble minerals like halite are the least stable.
Q. Is feldspar resistant to weathering?
of a relatively weathering resistant mineral, feldspar. When this mineral is completely hydrolyzed, clay minerals and quartz are produced and such elements as K, Ca, or Na are released.
Q. Is salt crystallization chemical weathering?
Salt weathering is a form of mechanical or physical weathering of rock. No chemical alteration of rock constituents is involved in salt weathering. The expanding salt crystals exert a pressure on the walls of the rock pores that exceeds the tensile strength of the rock.
