Exogenic Process
Exogenic Process
Exogenous Process
1. Degradation Processes
Also called Denudation Processes
a. Weathering ,
b. Mass Wasting
c. Erosion
d. Transportation
2. Aggradation Processes
a. Deposition
• Water
• air/wind
• human activities
• chemical substances
Kinds of weathering
– Mechanical weathering
• Breaking of rocks into smaller pieces
– Chemical weathering
• Chemical transformation of rock into one or more new
compounds
Biological Weathering
- Bio or with life are the main cause of breaking apart of rocks
Sometimes it eats
huge holes in the
rock--caves.
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When the acid water dissolved the rock
evaporates, crystals of calcite are left behind.
stalagmites
• Fast
• Slow
• Slump
– Rapid movement along a curved surface
– Occur along oversteepened slopes