I spoke to our geologist who came down on the side of weathering.
I can see his point, for example if you took a lovely piece of gritstone like this one http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/27232 and upended it to create a standing stone, the horizontally weathered bedding planes would then become vertical, this would definately help to excellerate the erosion process.
When is the oil going to run out?
Tomorrow!