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Exfoliation is the term used todescribe the peeling away of sheets of rock millimeters to meters in thickness from a rock's surface due a range of physical and chemical processes during exhumation and weathering . ... Unloading or release of stress in a rock that produces expansion joints can cause exfoliation.
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the change in temperature during summer and winter and in cases of arid region,during day and night,causes expansion and contraction in rock surfaces.
this causes the rock to break up or peel off rectangular rock block thus gradually rounded by splitting away sharp corner
it is exfoliation
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the change in temperature during summer and winter and in cases of arid region,during day and night,causes expansion and contraction in rock surfaces.
this causes the rock to break up or peel off rectangular rock block thus gradually rounded by splitting away sharp corner
it is exfoliation
hope it helps
thank you
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