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Posted: 07 Sep 2013

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Differential weathering

Differential weathering
Another example. The "ribs" standing out are finer-grained and thus more resistant than the rest of the granite.

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 tiabunna
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It's surprising how important differential weathering seems to be, on all kinds of scale.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
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Yeah, you get your eyeballs calibrated (as a prof of mine used to say) and you start to see it everywhere.
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

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