lithify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of lithify
Example Sentences
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A type of limestone called coquina originates from beach sands made predominantly of shells that were then lithified.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
It is exposed beneath the Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, a later series of sand dunes in which the conditions of the lithified rock allowed the formation of arches.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Sediments that were buried and lithified beneath the radiation penetration depth, possibly with organic molecules, would eventually be exhumed by erosion and exposed at the surface.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2014
Rain tumbling on to the ash would have dug out small depressions, which were then subsequently covered over by further ash deposits and lithified, or turned to stone.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2012
She succeeded in transcribing the human polyp properly lithified and correctly constituting the strata of the psychozoic age, when Vic stuck his head in at the door again.
From Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower
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