Sentence examples for physical weathering from inspiring English sources

In non-ornithogenic soils, the presence of easily weatherable minerals in the clay fraction indicates that physical weathering occurs with limited chemical alteration of primary minerals.

It is highly resistant to chemical and physical weathering.

Physical weathering causes the disintegration of rock by mechanical processes and therefore depends on the application of force.

Cryosols also are influenced by physical weathering, geochemical and biochemical weathering that occur at varying degrees.

These models usually consider physical weathering and treat the soil as a single layer of regolith.

Due to the cold climate and dominance of physical weathering conditions, coarse or massive debris prevails.

In 1904 he presented a farsighted program for physical weather prediction.

This technique is computer intensive, requires detailed, finer-scale full physical weather and ocean models, and will not be used here.

Numerous Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations (DSGSDs) occur throughout Italy, that originate from particular tectono-stratigraphic settings, relief, seismicity, deglaciation, as well as from intense and deep processes of chemico-physical weathering of crystalline metamorphic rocks.

Extrinsic factors affecting prevalence dynamics include physical conditions such as weather as well as community context of the host-parasite system, i.e. interactions with other members of the community [ 6- 13].

An MOE spokesperson told Al Jazeera that radiation rates "around Fukushima have significantly decreased [compared to October 2012 NRA survey] due to physical decay, weathering, and decontamination efforts".