Taking a karst region of western Hunan Province as research area, and selecting four weathering profiles (of which, two are underlain by limestones, and other two by clastic rocks) as research object, through contrasting and surveying of characteristics of grain size distribution of quartz, this paper makes effort to unveil the formation of weathering crusts in the area. In the weathering profiles of WC1 and WC2, the bedrocks are limestones, the grain size frequency distribution curves of quartz show single, narrow peak, and their modes are 4. 9p and A respectively. The weathering profiles of ...