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One important relationship between chemical and mechanical weathering is

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mechanical weathering can produce smaller pieces of rock that have more surface area for chemical weathering to work on.

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As mechanical weathering breakdown the rocks into smaller pieces, mechanically, the chemical weathering on the rocks also increases. This is because smaller pieces of the rock have a larger surface area to volume ration on which chemical weathering can act upon. This even further increases the weathering of the rock.

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