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Overview of Exogenic Processes

The earth's surface is covered by rocks that undergo exogenic processes including weathering, erosion, and deposition. Weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces through chemical processes like dissolution, hydrolysis, and oxidation or physical processes like frost wedging and temperature changes. Erosion then transports the weathered materials, which are eventually deposited in new locations.

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Overview of Exogenic Processes

The earth's surface is covered by rocks that undergo exogenic processes including weathering, erosion, and deposition. Weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces through chemical processes like dissolution, hydrolysis, and oxidation or physical processes like frost wedging and temperature changes. Erosion then transports the weathered materials, which are eventually deposited in new locations.

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The earth’s surface is covered by rocks.

EXOGENIC
PROCESSE
S

These rocks undergo series of geologic


processes known as the EXOGENIC
PROCESS.
WEATHERING DEPOSITION
EROSION

This includes:
WEATHERING
-a process by which rocks are broken
into smaller fragments chemically or
physically.
MECHANICAL
WEATHERING
• Happens when a large rock
breaks into pieces without
alteration in its chemical
composition.
FACTORS THAT LEAD TO PHYSICAL WEATHERING

1. FROST
WEDGING
2. EXFOLIATION

Change in pressure and


too much heat causes rock
particles to expand and to
contract when cooled;
alternate expansion and
contraction also results to
breaking of rocks
3.
TEMPERATURE

As rocks alternately heated and cooled, they expand


and contract; minerals expand and contract at
different amounts.
THIS IS DUE TO:

GRAVITY

MOVING WATER

STRONG WINDS

ICE GLACIERS
5. ORGANIC ACTIVITY

The roots grow causing penetration into the cracks, expands


and in the long run, break the rock.
6. HUMAN •can cause rocks to be broken into smaller pieces.
•Activities such as digging, quarrying,
ACTIVITY denuding forests and cultivating land contribute to
physical weathering.
Animals that live in soil create
holes in the soil

Water enters the holes and


causes weathering

They also burrow through


loose rock and help break it
down as they dig.

7. BURROWING ANIMALS
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
Decomposes rocks through chemical reactions that change the original
rock-forming minerals.
CHEMICAL REACTION DESCRIPTION

1. DISSOLUTION It occurs in specific mineral which are


dissolved in water.
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
CHEMICAL REACTION DESCRIPTION

2. HYDROLYSIS Rock-forming minerals like


amphibole, pyroxene, and feldspar
react with water and form different
kinds of clay minerals.

* When rocks sit in water for extended


periods of time they begin to
breakdown and have a clay-like
structure
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
CHEMICAL REACTION DESCRIPTION

3. OXIDATION It is the response of oxygen with


minerals. If the iron oxidizes, the
mineral in rocks decomposes. Rusting
is an example of this chemical reaction.
EROSION
-the separation and removal of
weathered rocks due to
different agents like water,
wind and ice that cause
transportation of minerals to
where they are deposited.
MASS
WASTING
- Is the movement of
sediments downslope
under the influence of
gravity.

TYPES:

 FALL
 SLIDE
 AVALANCHE
 FLOW
DEPOSITION
• The process in which the
weathered materials
carried out by erosion
settle down in a
particular location.

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