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Similarity between weathering and mass wasting​

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Both processes occur in place. No movement is involved in weathering. As soon as a rock particle (loosened by one of the two weathering processes) moves, we call it erosion or mass wasting. Mass wasting is simply movement down slope due to gravity.

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