lithify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of lithify
Example Sentences
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One core contains what appears to be lithified layers of soil, which could capture indicators of the atmosphere’s composition.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022
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
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
A characteristic paludal deposit is a peat bog, a deposit rich in organic matter that can be converted into coal when lithified.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
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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