Revisiting dirt cracking as a physical weathering process in warm deserts

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• fissure 100%
• cracking (fracture) 96%
• desert 80%
• weathering 79%
• fill 49%
• dust 41%
• calcrete 37%
• electron microscopy 28%
• calcium carbonate 27%
• wetting 26%
• alignment 26%
• clay 18%
• spalling 18%
• remobilization 16%
• open space 15%
• insolation 15%
• contract 13%
• rock 13%
• temperature change 13%
• transmission electron microscopy 12%
• bedrock 12%
• laboratory experiment 11%
• drying 11%
• infiltration 11%
• penetration 11%
• crack 10%
• X-ray diffraction 10%
• texture 10%
• dissolution 10%
• particle size 9%
• electron 9%
• carbonate 9%
• winter 8%
• particle 6%
• analysis 3%