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I zoomed in and wow, that is a jumbled cool mess of geology! Sideways rocks, tilted rocks, skinny rocks, fat rocks, vertical and horizontal rocks, round rocks, slab rocks and rocks with faces.
Physical weathering involves the mechanical breakdown of rock by wind, water, gravity, or other forces such as freeze-thaw cycles or displacement by roots. Frost-wedging occurs when water fills fractures or pore spaces in rock and freezes. Expansion of the water as it turns to ice can crack the nearby rock and continue to widen cracks over time during freeze-thaw cycles. Root-wedging occurs when the roots of plants infiltrate the rock, usually through pre-existing cracks, and cause these cracks to widen.
Physical weathering involves the mechanical breakdown of rock by wind, water, gravity, or other forces such as freeze-thaw cycles or displacement by roots. Frost-wedging occurs when water fills fractures or pore spaces in rock and freezes. Expansion of the water as it turns to ice can crack the nearby rock and continue to widen cracks over time during freeze-thaw cycles. Root-wedging occurs when the roots of plants infiltrate the rock, usually through pre-existing cracks, and cause these cracks to widen.