What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering in this context refers to general breakdown of rocks or soils and can be chemical or physical and may or may not involve any movement. For example a soil can be weathered by rainwater moving through it and be chemically altered into a totally different soil type without moving even an inch. So erosion is a subset of weathering. Or to put it another way, all erosion is weathering, but not all weathering results in erosion. >>>>> erosion is by ice wind or water, whethering is just by >>>>> wind Nonsense. Chemical weathering by water is far more widespread than weathering by wind.
