Exogenic Forces
- Exogenic forces or external forces are forces that draw their power from the earth’s exterior or arise within the earth’s atmosphere.
- The action of exogenic forces results in the wearing down of landforms.
- Temperature and precipitation are the two important climatic elements that control various processes by inducing stress in earth materials that lead to weathering
Denudation
- Weathering, mass wasting/movements, erosion, and transportation are included in denudation.
- Factors affecting denudation – Rock type and its structure that includes folds, faults, orientation, and inclination of beds, presence or absence of joints, bedding planes, hardness or softness of constituent minerals, chemical susceptibility of mineral constituents; permeability, or impermeability, etc.