The authors focused on one specific type of weathering, caused by chemical reactions that involve carbon dioxide. Even then, this gas doesn’t weather all minerals in the same way.

Physical weathering (also called mechanical weathering) happens when physical forces repeatedly act on the rock. One example is rocks tumbling over one another, knocking off pieces from one another.

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The natural process of rock weathering could be emitting as much carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the air as the world’s volcanoes.A study published October 4 in the journal Nature finds that natural ...