lithify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of lithify
Example Sentences
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The bedrock under these modern dunes is the Navajo Sandstone, the lithified remains of a 180-million-year-old desert.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2020
Mostly, these are reworked over and over again, but occasionally, the features are preserved in a depression, then lithified.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
They use uniformitarianism to usually compare sedimentary structures formed in modern environments to lithified counterparts in ancient rocks.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
A cross-cutting network of sulfate-filled fractures indicates later flow of groundwater through fractures after the sediment was lithified.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2014
They become lithified as it were and constitute the strata of the psychozoic stage'—I told you the butter's at the spring.
From Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower
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