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Conclusions

There were some general trends to the patterns observed in the weathering rind thicknesses. For example, most areas where the face was obviously weathered mechanically (pieces falling off) had thin weathering rinds. This makes sense if we consider that any rinds which were present there would have fallen off when the rock they were sitting on fell off.
Areas toward the top which seemed not to be missing chunks did have thicker weathering rinds in general than those toward the bottom of the scarp.
However, these conclusions do not always work for all situations on this scarp. There is some error in this problem: the rectification is not perfect, so the contours don't match with the actual data points completely. There is always human error. Also, the sample point density was not as high as we would have liked it, mainly because we didn't have time to take many more points than this.
The events hypothesized show up in some fashion when looking at the contour map on the image. The event in the middle of the scarp seems to have a pattern of thinner rinds toward the paleosurface and thicker rinds toward the bottom. This pattern also shows up in the lower event scarp. Further up the scarp, however, these patterns don't really exist and the weathering rind thickness seems to be controlled much more by physical weathering (rocks falling off) rather than chemical weathering.

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