The document discusses weathering and mass wasting processes. It defines weathering as the physical and chemical breakdown of rock material at the Earth's surface. Factors like climate, rock type, and biology influence weathering rates. Physical weathering breaks rocks without chemical change, while chemical weathering alters rock composition. Mass wasting involves downslope movement of earth materials under gravity, including landslides, mudflows, and rockfalls. Mass wasting occurs when driving forces like gravity exceed resisting forces, and can be influenced by slope angle, water content, and vegetation changes.
The reason for the occurrence of such a huge mass of water on the globe, is still a myth and reality. The reason goes back to the Origin of Earth itself. The exact mode of origin is not precisely known. Scientists assume, both Primary and secondary sources would have given rise to all both air and water on the earth. Two possible sources as internal source (or) external source have been proposed so far. Some of them are attributed towards the theories of origin of the earth.
Gravity pulls the rocks, soils and debris on a downward slope, naturally, without any chemical change. This downward movement is called as mass -movement or mass-wasting.
Landslides, mudflows and rockfalls are all belonging to this category of geomorphic processes.
Mass-wasting may lead to severe natural disasters by affecting the life and building structures in different places. Understanding of mass-wasting will certainly help to mitigate the impacts of these hazards and plan the development activities.
The reason for the occurrence of such a huge mass of water on the globe, is still a myth and reality. The reason goes back to the Origin of Earth itself. The exact mode of origin is not precisely known. Scientists assume, both Primary and secondary sources would have given rise to all both air and water on the earth. Two possible sources as internal source (or) external source have been proposed so far. Some of them are attributed towards the theories of origin of the earth.
Gravity pulls the rocks, soils and debris on a downward slope, naturally, without any chemical change. This downward movement is called as mass -movement or mass-wasting.
Landslides, mudflows and rockfalls are all belonging to this category of geomorphic processes.
Mass-wasting may lead to severe natural disasters by affecting the life and building structures in different places. Understanding of mass-wasting will certainly help to mitigate the impacts of these hazards and plan the development activities.
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Presentation on the different factors controlling weathering. In this we discuss the basic concepts is weathering and explain in breif the various factors controlling them.
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3. Weathering
• It is a unique phenomena happening on the
earth’s surface
• Weathering is an important geomorphic
mechanism which can destabilize the earth’s
surface materials and remove them by erosive
processes.
• Weathering is the physical disintegration and
chemical decomposition of a rock mass on the
land.
• It happens ‘In-situ’
4. Factors Influencing Weathering
• Topography : Ground Slope, Aspect,
Altitude
• Physical characteristics of rocks : Minerals,
Joints, Layering, Folding, Faulting.
• Climatic Variations : Humid Tropics
(CW>MW), Dry, semi-Arid (MW>CW),
Permafrost, Monsoon.
• Vegetation (Flora) : Presence-Absence,
Macro-Micro, Physical-Chemical.
Weathering is In-situ and involves no agent of Transport
5. Geomorphic Importance of Weathering
• Lowering of Surfaces.
• Physical modification of pre-existing rocks.
• Modifications are made on the pre-existing rocks by
mechanical forces, chemical reactions and biological
interactions.
• Changes are expected in the pre-existing geologic materials
that are exposed at or near the surface of the Earth.
• Destabilization of Geomorphic masses.
• Weathering creates both soils and other loose rock fragments.
• Weathering releases several chemical compounds from the
parent rocks.
• Modification and Evolution of Landforms.
7. Physical Weathering
• Physical weathering is related to the physical breakup of
rocks into small pieces and fragments. In physical
weathering, there is no change in the chemistry of the
parent rock.
• It happens especially in places where there is little soil and
few plants grow, such as in mountain regions and hot
deserts. a large diurnal range of temperature or,
temperatures fluctuating around 0 degrees Celsius.
• The types/processes of physical weathering include;
abrasion, crystallization, root wedging, insolation
weathering, human mining, animal activity, tumbling,
compressional stress, crushing waves, tensional stress.
8. Mechanisms of Physical Weathering
• Freezing and thawing/ Frost weathering : acts on a
wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from
minutes to years. pronounced in high altitude and
latitude areas. Block Disintegration
• Root Wedging : Plants are effective agents of
mechanical weathering. Roots can penetrate through
the cracks of rocks to depths of several meters.
• Heat spalling/ Thermal Weathering : sharp
temperature fluctuations, dry air, absence or poorly
developed vegetation cover. Heat from forest fires will
cause the outer surface layers of rock to expand
quickly and break away in spalls. Granular Disintegration
• Exfoliation/ spheroidal weathering : separation of
successive thin shells, or spalls happen from massive
rocks
9. Chemical Weathering
• Chemical Weathering is the process of
decomposition of Earth’s surface materials.
• Effectiveness of chemical weathering, is
directly related to, Mineral stability, surface
area exposed, which is related to the Density
of fractures in a rock.
• Rate of Chemical weathering depends on
Temperature, Availability of water or natural
acid.
10. Mechanisms of Chemical Weathering
• Solution is the process of dissolving mineral constituents by water or acid. Some
substances present in the rocks are directly soluble in water. Soluble substances are
removed by the continuous action of water.
• Hydration involves absorption of water. Soil forming minerals in rocks do not contain
any water and they under go hydration when exposed to humid conditions. Upon
hydration there is swelling and increase in volume of minerals.
• Hydrolysis is also a process of chemical weathering. It is due to the dissociation of
H2O into H+ and OH-ions which chemically combine with minerals and bring about
changes. Hydrolysis of feldspar, produces clay.
• Oxidation of Minerals and Rocks is an effective process in de-coloration and
decomposition of materials. atmospheric oxygen combines with the metal ions of
minerals to form oxides.
• Carbonation is the reaction of carbonate or carbonate ions with minerals. Carbonic
acid is the principal weak acid- responsible for chemical weathering.
• Chelation is a biological process where organisms produce organic substances,
known as chelates, that have the ability to decompose minerals and rocks by the
removal of metallic cations
13. Moving Mass on the Earth’s surface
• Gravity pulls the rocks, soils and debris on a
downward slope, naturally, without any
chemical change.
• This downward movement is called as mass –
movement or mass-wasting.
• Landslides, mudflows and rockfalls, belong to
this category of geomorphic processes.
• It is also called as mass-movement.
14. Significance of Mass Wasting
• Mass-wasting is a natural phenomena which and
be aggravated through human interventions
• Mass-wasting processes are occurring
continuously on all slopes; some act very slowly,
others occur very suddenly.
• Mass-wasting may lead to severe natural
disasters by affecting the life and building
structures in different places.
• Understanding of mass-wasting will certainly help
to mitigate the impacts of these hazards and plan
the development activities.
15. Forces for movements
• Two forces involved in a mass standing are the
driving force and the resisting force.
• The standing mass has the driving force due to its
weight. The slope and substratum have the
resisting force.
• When the driving force exceeds the resisting
force, then the mass becomes unstable and
moves down or falls.
• When the gravitational force acting on a slope
exceeds its resisting force, failure of slope occurs
in holding the mass.
17. Classification based on Speed and direction
Slurry Flows
•Solifluction
•Mudflows
•Debris flows
•Lahars
Slides
•Planar
•Rotational
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19. Factors responsible
• change in the slope angle
• weakening of the material by weathering
• increased water content
• changes in the vegetation cover
• Overloading
• Increase in Shear Stress
• Decrease in Shear Strength
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