Geomorphic Processes

(Earth Movements)

involving
These are external no. that
forces These are internal forces
operate and act on the surface
EXOGENIC ENDOGENIC that occur beneath or
The geomorphic process means bringing about changes in
of the Earth. inside the Earth’s surface.
the configuration of the Earth’s surface, due to physical
stresses and chemical actions on materials present on earth.
WEATHERING
physical
weathering and Change in chemical caused by plants
disaggregation composition and animals Mass movements Deposition
Erosion
involving no
chemical Mechanical Weathering Chemical Weathering Biological Weathering Folding Magmatism Volcanism
change. -movement of rock earthen materials laying down of and
and soil down slope are worn away sediment carried Faulting Metamorphism
under the influence of and transported by wind, flowing emplacement
Exfoliation Carbonation- -Organic activity gravity by natural forces water, the sea or of magma
-curved plates of mixing of water from lichen and the
ice refers to any within and at
rock are stripped with carbon dioxide algae phenomenon
change in the the surface of
from rock below to make carbonic Landslides-sliding It can be wind alteration of
shape or size the outer of eruption of
acid down of a mass of erosion, air of a rock as a the
layers of a molten rock
earth or rock from erosion or water response to composition
Hydrolysis- the -rock terrestrial (magma) onto
Frost Wedging a mountain or cliff erosion the stress or structure
breakdown of rock disintegration by planet, which the surface of
-splitting or break-up of a rock by
by acidic water to solidifies as the Earth
of rock by the pressure plant growth heat,
produce clay and igneous rock
of water Debris Avalanche- result of the
soluble salts pressure, or
sudden catastrophic fracture or other
Temperature Hydration-chemical -burrowing collapse (landslide) displacement
natural
of rock layer
Changes-cause rock bonds of the mineral e.g rabbit, mice, from an unstable agency
to expand (with heat) are changed as it rats and etc. side of a volcano or strata
and contract (with interacts with water along
occur awhen
fault
cold) plane
they are
Rock Fall-rapid subjected to
Salt Wedging -when Oxidation- -secretion of acids
saltwater seeps into breakdown of rock by mass movement tectonic
rocks and then oxygen and water, of bedrock broken forces from
evaporates on a hot often giving iron-rich from a opposite
sunny day rocks a rusty-coloured destabilized slope sides
weathered surface

Abrasion-one rock
bumps against Solution- removal
another rock of rock in solution Name: Carmela T. Cruz
by acidic rainwater 11-STEM Kapnayan