Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice. The term...

result of weathering, erosion and redeposition. Weathering is a crucial part of the rock cycle; sedimentary rock, the product of weathered rock, covers...

cold winter mornings (window frost or fern frost) and nipping the extremities in cold weather. Over time, window frost has become far less prevalent...

physical weathering or disaggregation) and chemical (changing the chemical compounds in the rocks). Biological weathering is a form of weathering (mechanical...

be formed by frost weathering below the surface. An alternative theory that modern blockfields may have originated from chemical weathering that occurred...

the usual temperatures occurring in winter. The primary symptom of frost weather is that water freezes. If the temperature is low for sufficiently long...

resistant to erosion and weathering has formed a cliff or bluff, but a softer stratum, more subject to erosion and weathering, lies just below the resistant...

entering through these voids can cause significant damage through frost weathering and from salt dissolution and deposition. Repointing is also called...

freezing by raising the temperature of the ice. Cryoturbation Frost law Frost weathering Ice jacking Palsa In the section II. Fl. Om Jord och Landskap...

Jean-Pierre Peulvast regard weathering of rock into saprolite as important in shaping the strandflat. Büdel held that weathering took place in a distant past...

distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rock. The...

Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface. Frost forms when the air contains...

Commons has media related to Solifluctions. Mass wasting Stone run Frost weathering An example of solifluction can be seen southeast of the Swedish lake...

stable minerals that are only present when little weathering has occurred. The amount of weathering depends mainly on the distance to the source area...

eroded land after a glacier retreats. They are not greatly affected by frost weathering, given the low frequency of freeze-thaw cycles in areas of ice caps...

It includes understanding coastal weathering processes, particularly wave action, sediment movement and weather, and the ways in which humans interact...

doi:10.1142/8068. ISBN 978-981-4338-96-7. Matsuoka N, Murton J (2008). "Frost weathering: recent advances and future directions". Permafrost and Periglacial...

enough to resist the inner tensile stress caused by water freezing. Frost weathering Ice thermal expansion References Scherer G.W. (2006). Internal stress...

Indian summer as not occurring until after the first frost, or more specifically the first "killing frost". The late 19th-century lexicographer Albert Matthews...

field on the Altkönig that was formed in the ice age as a result of frost weathering. It lies at a maximum elevation of 634 m above sea level (NHN) near...

bituminous crack sealer prevents water from enlarging cracks through frost weathering, or percolating down to the subbase and softening it. For somewhat...

The River Thames frost fairs were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some winters, starting at least as early as the late 7th...

structures, and in environmental protection. Joints have a profound control on weathering and erosion of bedrock. As a result, they exert a strong control on how...

parent rock material. Example process domains include: Physical weathering Chemical weathering Biotic processes Thermal stresses Topographic stresses Scree...

Look up frost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Frost may refer to two distinct weather phenomena: Frost (temperature), a value of air temperature less...

However, the marble turned out to be useless due to the effects of frost weathering, causing it to disintegrate as it reached warmer climates. All mining...

the weather observation field in Europe likewise recorded lows down to −15 °C (5 °F). Derham wrote in Philosophical Transactions: "I believe the Frost was...

including mussels and sea urchins. Granitic ridges are subjected to frost weathering. Joints, or fractures, are slowly enlarged as trapped water repeatedly...

highly susceptible to weathering by freeze-thaw action, which may occur over repeated annual or diurnal cycles. This frost weathering produces a mix of rubble...

hamper drainage of the numerous lakes, ponds, and swamps of the tundra. Frost weathering is the most important physical process here, gradually shaping a landscape...