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The Cause of Fluted Weathering

Nature volume 96, page 426 (1915)Cite this article

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HAS the cause of fluted weathering, I would like to ask, ever been determined? It differs widely from all other forms of weathering that I have seen or read of The long, smooth, parallel grooves are met with sometimes on the two sides of a block of limestone when such lies so that there are roof-like surfaces uppermost. On these two sides they frequently correspond at the ridge and follow a direct course downwards unless compelled to curve round some projecting boss.

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ABBOTT, G. The Cause of Fluted Weathering. Nature 96, 426 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096426b0

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