How to use in-sentence of “weathering”:
+ Landforms made by erosion and weathering usually occur in coastal or fluvial areas, and many are listed under those headings.
+ Arkose is generally formed from the weathering of igneous or metamorphic rocks.
+ The sculpture was made from the same weathering steel as the Angel of the North sculpture.
+ The rate of chemical weathering increases by 2-3 times when the temperature increases by 10 degrees Celsius.
+ Paleontologist John Scannella observed: “It is hard to walk out into the Hell Creek Formation and not stumble upon a “Triceratops” weathering out of a hillside”.
Example sentences of “weathering”:
+ Mechanical weathering physically breaks up rock.
+ Many years of weathering has made the faults bigger and water has eroded the rock into the valleys and domes seen today.
+ It is made from copper, concrete and weathering steel.
+ Physical weathering does not involve any chemical changes in the rock, just its physical breaking apart.
+ Lava or magma can cause weathering when molten rock touches older rock.
+ The rocks’ degree of weathering is highly variable, with its origin being due to the accumulation of different type of volcanic rocks.
+ Limestone is hard enough to resist weathering but usually soft enough to be worked by stonemasons.
+ He then discussed the changes that the rocks had gone through because of weathering and erosion.
+ The hoodoos are badlands formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
+ Mechanical weathering physically breaks up rock.
+ Many years of weathering has made the faults bigger and water has eroded the rock into the valleys and domes seen today.
+ Sand is also formed various rocks by weathering and erosion.
+ Mechanical or physical weathering is when the rocks and minerals are broken down but the Chemical composition remains the same.
+ These processes include partial melting, crystallization, fractionation, metamorphism, weathering and diagenesis.
+ It was very costly but its rapid weathering and later alterations have removed all but fragments.
+ Sandstone which is resistant to weathering is used for building in many countries.
+ The increased evaporation from the larger water area of the oceans may have increased rainfall, which, in turn, increased the weathering of exposed rock.
+ It is a feature of the Earth that climate, weathering and plate tectonics removes most of the older features and events.