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Growing plant roots can actually exert stress or pressure on rock, or so they generally

thought. Although the process actually is mechanical, the pressure really is exerted by a
definitely biological process such as growing roots in a sort of major way. Biological processes
can also mostly produce for all intents and purposes chemical weathering, for example where
plant roots or microorganisms kind of produce organic acids which really help to really dissolve
minerals, demonstrating how growing plant roots can actually exert stress or pressure on rock,
which particularly is fairly significant.
Microbial activity breaks down rock minerals by altering the rock’s definitely chemical
composition, thus making it generally more really susceptible to weathering in an actually
major way. One example of microbial activity literally is lichen; lichen particularly is fungi and
algae, living together in a symbiotic relationship, which basically is fairly significant. Fungi
release chemicals that essentially break down rock minerals; the minerals thus released from
rock really are consumed by the algae in a basically big way. As this process continues, holes
and gaps for all intents and purposes continue to for all intents and purposes develop on the
rock, exposing the rock fairly further to really mechanical and fairly chemical weathering,
showing how fairly biological processes can also mostly produce basically chemical weathering,
for example where plant roots or microorganisms basically produce organic acids which for the
most part help to actually dissolve minerals, demonstrating how growing plant roots can really
exert stress or pressure on rock, or so they generally thought.
I therefore concluded that plant growth is a factor that causes the rock to have a hole.
The plant growth factor is under the Mechanical Weathering, a process by which large rocks are
broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. The process is commonly referred to as physical
weathering because it occurs near the Earth's surface. Can you believe that the tiny sand grains
you see on the beach were once huge rocks?
Mechanical processes that disintegrate a rock, such as tree roots growing in cracks in a
rock and eventually breaking it up, are involved. Mechanical weathering has no effect on the
chemical composition of the rocks.

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