Weathering is the breakdown of rocks at the Earth’s surface, by the action of rainwater, extremes of temperature, and biological activity. It does not involve the removal of rock material. There are three types of weathering, physical, chemical and biological.
Weathering, mass wasting, erosion, and deposition are the main exogenic processes. All the exogenic processes are covered under a general term- denudation, which means strip off or uncovers. The elements of nature capable of doing these exogenic processes are termed geomorphic agents (or exogenic geomorphic agents).
Weathering is a process in which rocks get disintegrated into smaller particles or get decomposed at or near the surface of the Earth. For example, biological weathering. Denudation is a long term process in which the wearing and tearing of the surface of the Earth takes place.
Answer: The sea waves deposit sediments along the seashores. This results in the formation of beaches.
Endogenic processes include tectonic movements of the crust, magmatism, metamorphism, and seismic activity (seeTECTONIC MOVEMENT; MAGMATISM; and METAMORPHISM).
diastrophism, also called tectonism, large-scale deformation of Earth’s crust by natural processes, which leads to the formation of continents and ocean basins, mountain systems, plateaus, rift valleys, and other features by mechanisms such as lithospheric plate movement (that is, plate tectonics), volcanic loading, or .
exogenetic processes A blanket term for those processes which operate on or close to the surface of the Earth and which involve weathering, mass movement, fluvial, aeolian, glacial, periglacial, and coastal processes. The term is normally used in contrast to the endogenetic processes, whose origin is within the Earth.
Different types of exogenic processes are weathering, mass wasting/movements, erosion and transportation.
Examples of exogenic forces include the erosion, oxidation and reduction, mass wasting ,weathering, hydration etc. The exogenous processes depend upon the type and structure of the rocks as well the climate. The three main exogenous processes are folding, faulting and volcanism.
1. The forces that work on the surface of the earth are called exogenic forces. 2. The forces that act in the interior of the earth are called endogenic forces. Was this answer helpful?
