Weathering: Introduction
There is a remarkable landscape known as Devil’s Marbles near Wauchope, Australia. This area is known for large boulders like the ones you see here, delicately poised atop the rocks beneath them. Like all other features of the natural landscape, these rocks have a story to tell, and the scientists that study them have pieced together enough clues to learn that each "marble" began millions of years ago as granitic magma deep within Earth. But nothing on Earth escapes change and one of the types of change you will learn about in this section is called weathering. In this section, you will learn how weathering helped to form these remarkable features.
