How can you tell the difference between weathering and erosion?

-- Megan O'Rourke (morourke@oswego.edu), May 04, 2001

Answers

Weathering is the process that breaks up rock. This is done either chemically (like acid rain) or physically (like ice wedging). Erosion is the process that actually removes the sediment from the site to be deposited elsewhere.

-- Angelique Chambers (achambe1@oswego.edu), May 04, 2001.