Studies conducted over several decades have shown that the freeze-thaw cycles are a
process of energy input and output in soil, which help drive the formation of soil structure …

Studies of rates, processes and modes of rock surface, and near-surface, deterioration, and
also hardening, are central to rock weathering and building stone research, conservation …

The Periglacial Environment, Fourth Edition, is an authoritative overview of the world's cold,
non-glacial environments. First published in 1976 and subsequently revised in 1996 and …

Understanding the freezing pattern of pore water is the basis for revealing the mechanisms
of frost damage in porous rocks. We employed low-field nuclear magnetic resonance …

We studied the formation and evolution mechanism of polygonal cracks on rock surfaces
under cooling by modelling meso-damage mechanics, continuum mechanics and …

Freeze–thaw cycling stresses many environments which include porous media such as soil,
rock and concrete. Climate change can expose new regions and subject others to a …

Despite the prominent role of physical weathering in arid and semi-arid landscapes, there
has been little study of the specific processes responsible for the rapid breakdown of …

Thermal expansion differences between minerals within rocks under insolation have
previously been assumed to drive breakdown by means of granular disaggregation …

Soil freeze-thaw cycles (FTCs) change soil physical, chemical, and biological properties,
however information regarding their vertical variations in response to FTCs is limited. In this …

Widespread acceptance in science at-large notwithstanding, the ability of thermal stresses to
produce thermal fatigue (TF) and/or thermal shock (TS) in bedrock and coarse debris in the …