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He also found cracks and spalls throughout the structure and signs of moisture intrusion, as well as corroded rebar.

From Fox News • Jul. 21, 2021

Sheeting or exfoliation is when the rock surface spalls off in layers.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

As a variant we have walls composed of stones of fairly uniform size, laid with the best face out and with the interstices chinked with small spalls.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

There is also the site of a flint-working industry, a space 40 or 50 feet across being strewn with spalls, flakes, and chips.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

The masonry is good, and was composed of larger stones than usual, carefully chinked with spalls, the work being well done.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos