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lithify

[ lith-uh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

lithified, lithifying.
  1. to change (sediment) to stone or rock.


verb (used without object)

lithified, lithifying.
  1. to become lithified.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lithify1

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One core contains what appears to be lithified layers of soil, which could capture indicators of the atmosphere’s composition.

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The bedrock under these modern dunes is the Navajo Sandstone, the lithified remains of a 180-million-year-old desert.

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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.

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Description of the lithified deposits would be far from complete without reference to the later diabase which is associated with the Newark rocks.

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They become lithified as it were and constitute the strata of the psychozoic stage'—I told you the butter's at the spring.

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