Dirt cracking as rock fracture-wedging process in the Mediterranean climate of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Mediterranean climate 100%
• cracking (fracture) 80%
• carbonate 53%
• rock 39%
• fissure 20%
• calcium carbonate 19%
• wetting 19%
• drying 16%
• lead contamination 13%
• barium 11%
• electron microscopy 10%
• smectite 10%
• host rock 9%
• iron oxide 9%
• contraction 9%
• automobile 9%
• fill 8%
• bedrock 8%
• Antarctica 8%
• desert 8%
• silicate 8%
• penetration 8%
• Asia 8%
• phosphate 7%
• calcium 7%
• dissolution 7%
• heavy metal 7%
• iron 6%
• clay 6%
• ocean 5%
• sampling 5%
• mineral 5%