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    This document discusses the process of chemical weathering of rocks. Chemical weathering breaks down rocks through the action of acid rain, oxygen, and substances released by plants. Over long periods of time, chemical weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces and sediments.

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    Chemical Weathering of Rocks

    Chemical Weathering of Rocks


    This text is adapted from an original work of the Core Knowledge Foundation.

    The process of weathering breaks rock into smaller pieces. Some of these tiny pieces
    combine with once-living material to form topsoil. Other small pieces of rock collect as
    sediments. One basic type of weathering is chemical weathering.

    Chemical weathering breaks down rocks by changing the minerals they contain. Rain is a
    powerful chemical weathering force. As rain falls, it mixes with the gas carbon dioxide in the
    air. The result is acid rain. Acid rain is strong enough to dissolve some minerals in rocks.
    Once dissolved, the minerals easily wash away, weakening the rock. Acid rain very slowly
    carves some rocks into different shapes. It gradually erases the lettering on old gravestones,
    and blurs the faces of stone statues. It eats away at the outside of ancient and even modern
    buildings. Where rain seeps into the ground, carbonic acid causes weathering of buried rocks
    as well. Over long periods of time, this often unobserved weathering creates caves deep
    underground.

    Another gas in the air-oxygen-causes chemical weathering in rocks. With a little help from
    water, oxygen reacts with iron-containing minerals. The reaction changes the minerals,
    making the rocks brittle and crumbly, and turning them a rusty red color.

    Some plants release rock-weathering substances.


    Take a peek under a patch of moss growing on a
    rock and you'll see little pits in the rock's surface.
    Acid from the moss plant caused the damage.

    As a result of all weathering, rocks are broken down


    into smaller pieces and ultimately into sediments.

    Towering rock formations created by chemical


    weathering rise straight up out of the ground near
    Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province.
    Some formations are as tall as a 10-story
    building. The Chinese call this place Shilin, or the
    Stone Forest.

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