Term: | Frost wedging |
Definition: | The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of water freezing in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes. |
Term: | Frost wedging |
Definition: | A process of physical weathering in which water freezes in a crack and exerts force on the rock causing further rupture. |
Term: | Frost wedging |
Definition: | The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of the freezing of water in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes |