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The form of mechanical weathering that occurs when a magma chamber starts expanding after the overlying volcano has been removed is known as what?

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Exfoliation.

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Exfoliation is a form of chemical weathering that occurs when sheets of rocks peel from a massive rock's surface. It is also the unloading and sheeting of stress in a rock that expands the magma chamber.

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