silicify
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This material, as is well known, is very liable to disintegrate, and the remedy is to silicify it.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Chambers, William
Every geologist is aware how often silicified trees occur in volcanic tuffs, the perfect preservation of their internal structure showing that they have not decayed before the petrifying material was supplied.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
These plains are much higher than the sandstone ravines, and the soil contains not only pebbles, but angular fragments of the knots and fibres of wood in a silicified state, and much encrusted with chalcedony.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
From this resemblance I expected to find silicified wood, which is generally characteristic of those formations.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
These specimens were, in general, silicified: but the outer parts came off in soft flakes resembling rotten bark, being equally pliant, although they felt gritty, like sand, between the teeth.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
Near Weymouth, in the well-known dirt beds, are found trees with their silicified trunks growing up in the position of nature, and their roots embedded in the soil on which they grew.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
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