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What are the types of mechanical-physical weathering?

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Ice wedging, plant root growth in rock crevices, pressure release, tensional stress, compressional stress, abrasion by windblown sediments, rock falls from gravity, crashing waves, human mining activities, animal activity, tumbling.
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