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Describe the process of exfoliation pls

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Exfoliation is the peeling away of sheets of rock millimeters to meters in thickness from a rock's surface due a range of physical and chemical processes during exhumation and weathering.It can occur due to several processes.

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Exfoliation is the process in which rocks weather by peeling off in sheets rather than eroding grain by grain.
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