Record’s physical design properties


Can someone describe or point me to a document that describes the physical properties of records in terms of the shape of the grooves and how the shape, weight, or the overall design of a cartridge affects the sound and in particular the bass and treble response. Visually speaking, in some songs the grooves are tighter and deeper and in others they are further apart and appear shallower and these differences definitely sound different. Just very curious.
 Thanks in advance.
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Thank you all. What piqued my curiosity was I noticed by accident that I could tweak the sound by changing the counterweight - more weight on the cartridge. Not saying dramatic difference but the bass in particular was noticeable. It made me think that the shape of the grooves and the depth that the needle travels through them affects the frequency response.
“what motivated you to arbitrarily move the CW (presumably toward the pivot which would increase VTF)?”

It was by mistake. I switched cartridges between two turntables and made an error when resetting the the tone arm/cartridge to 0 and then adjust by adding the specified cartridge weight. 
Thanks tketcham for your explanation and everyone for providing the links.
Lots of moving parts that need to come together to make good sound.