Alternate Definitions for Frost wedging

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Term: Frost wedging
Definition: The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of water freezing in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes.  NSIDCCryosphere 

The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of the freezing of water in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes  IPAPermafrost 

A process of physical weathering in which water freezes in a crack and exerts force on the rock causing further rupture.  PhysicalGeography 

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Term: Frost wedging
Definition: The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of water freezing in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes.
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Term: Frost wedging
Definition: A process of physical weathering in which water freezes in a crack and exerts force on the rock causing further rupture.
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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Term: Frost wedging
Definition: The mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of the freezing of water in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
Contributed by GCW Glossary
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