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Question
Give Reasons:
Chemical weathering is predominant in hot and humid zones.
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Solution
- Heat speeds up chemical weathering.
- Minerals can react with oxygen in the atmosphere or water from rain – even occassional rain in arid zones – to change their chemical composition.
- Metallic silicate minerals such as iron containing olivine, oxidize to form hematite, a red coloured iron oxide that coats rocks.
- It is present in desert sands as laterite soil.
- With continuing heat and moisture, hematite hydrates to form a yellow coloured iron oxide, limonite.
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