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Chapter 1: Introduction to Physical Geology
Chapter 2: Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
Chapter 3: Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks
Chapter 4: Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks
Chapter 5: Weathering and Soil
Chapter 6: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 7: Metamorphism, Metamorphic Rocks, and Hydrothermal Rocks
Chapter 8: Time and Geology
Chapter 9: Mass Wasting
Chapter 10: Streams and Floods
Chapter 11: Ground Water
Chapter 12: Glaciers and Glaciation
Chapter 13: Deserts and Wind Action
Chapter 14: Waves, Beaches, and Coasts
Chapter 15: Geologic Structures
Chapter 16: Earthquakes
Chapter 17: The Earth's Interior
Chapter 18: The Sea Floor
Chapter 19: Plate Tectonics
Chapter 20: Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust
Chapter 21: Geologic Resources
Chapter 5: Weathering and Soil
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Chapter 5: Weathering and Soil
The ongoing processes of weathering, erosion, and transportation
Why rocks and minerals weather mechanically and chemically at the earth's surface
How frost wedging and other processes disintegrate rock
How atmospheric gases and water decompose rock
Why many rocks and minerals are out of chemical equilibrium at the earth's surface
How weathering helps shape exfoliation domes, spheroidally weathered boulders, pedestal rocks, and differentially eroded landforms
The importance of carbonic acid in chemical weathering
The solution weathering of calcite
The chemical weathering of feldspar and other minerals to form clay minerals
Why quartz is chemically stable at the earth's surface
How soil forms; the difference between residual and transported soils; the origin of soil horizons
How climate is related to soil type
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