Across
- 3. Physical, chemical and minerological characteristics of surficial material
- 4. The weathered material lying above the unaltered fresh bedrock.
- 5. The repeated cycle of ice formation and ice melt in the pore spaces and fractures of rocks causing disintegration of the rock.
- 10. the chemical weathering of chalk and limestone rocks by rain Fall
- 11. are depositional contacts that overlie rocks distinctly older than they are.
- 12. weathering causes the rocks to decompose.
- 13. This means the rocks fall apart into smaller pieces.
- 14. the process when ice turns to water.
- 15. refers to particle size or the range of particle sizes
- 16. sequence of layers in which individual layers are not horizontal but incline down stream
- 17. refers to layers (if any) or bending within surficial material
- 18. Many pedons together in one area make up a ____
- 19. weathering causes the rocks to disintegrate.
Down
- 1. The chemical reaction between some minerals in rocks and the oxygen in the air.
- 2. Rock formed by magma or lava cooling.
- 6. is when pieces of the outer layer of rock break away.
- 7. The weathering _____ is the boundary between fresh and weathered rock.
- 8. the isolate rock hills created by long term weathering and erosion
- 9. the rock formed by layers of sediment under water.
- 17. (ψ) describes how closely a rock particle resembles a sphere.