frost wedging

English

Noun

frost wedging (plural frost wedgings)

  1. A natural process when water seeps into rock cracks, freezes, expands, and forces the rock apart, gradually breaking it down through repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
    Hypernyms: mechanical erosion < frost weathering

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