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Ice
Crystals (Photo © Duncan Heron) Barnwell County, SC
Results
of Frost Wedging with Help from Sheeting (Photo by Jim Mueller)
*Root
Wedging (Photo © Duncan Heron) 40 Acre Rocky, SC
Vegetation
Growing in Joints (Photo © Duncan Heron) Stone Mountain State Park, NC
*Sheeting
(Photo © Duncan Heron) 40 Acre Rock, South Carolina
*Sheeting
Fractures Closer Together Toward the Surface (Photo by Jim Mueller)
Stone
Mt Georgia Sheeting Dome (Photo © Duncan Heron)
Vertical
Joint at Stone Mt Georgia (Photo © Duncan Heron)
Sheeting
Parallel to Surface (Photo © Duncan Heron) Western NC
Fresh
Granite (Photo © Duncan Heron) Kershaw County, SC
Granite.
First Stage of Chemical Weathering (Photo © Duncan Heron) Kershaw County, SC
Detail
of Carving in SS, Petra, Jordan (Photo by Mayada Abu Jaber)
Fracture
Pathway for Water (Photo © Duncan Heron) NC Museum of Life & Science, Durham, NC
*Corners
Rounded by Weathering (Photo © Duncan Heron) NC Museum of Life & Science
Weathering
Increases Toward Surface (Photo © Duncan Heron) NC Museum of Life & Science
Weathering
Along a Joint (Photo © Duncan Heron) West Virginia Turnpike
Detail
of Weathering Along Joint (Photo © Duncan Heron) West Virginia Turnpike
Why So
Little Weathering? (Photo © Duncan Heron) 40 Acre Rock, SC
Foliated
Rock (Photo © Duncan Heron) Western NC
Coarse
Grained Rock (Photo © Duncan Heron) Flint pebbles near Hastings, England
Forum,
Rome Italy (Photo © Duncan Heron)
Detail
of Solution of Forum Marble, Rome Italy (Photo © Duncan Heron)
Lincoln
Memorial (Photo © Duncan Heron) Washington, DC
Solution
of Jefferson M. Marble (Photo © Duncan Heron) Washington, DC
Balustrades
at Organization of American States (Photo © Duncan Heron) Washington, DC
Trinity
Church Boston, MA (Photo © Duncan Heron)
Detail
of Carving - Trinity Church (Photo © Duncan Heron) Boston, MA