Definition of Lithified

1. Verb. (past of lithify) ¹

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Definition of Lithified

1. lithify [v] - See also: lithify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lithified

lithest
lithia
lithia water
lithian
lithias
lithiases
lithiasis
lithiate
lithiated
lithiates
lithiation
lithic
lithic acid
lithification
lithifications
lithified (current term)
lithifies
lithify
lithifying
lithing
lithiomarsturite
lithiophilite
lithiophilites
lithiophorite
lithiophosphate
lithiotantite
lithiowodginite
lithite
lithites
lithium

Literary usage of Lithified

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"Partly lithified sand, having the appearance of dune origin (camel, horse, birds, ... Partly lithified sand of stream origin. The water sorting, laminating, ..."

2. Geological Expedition to Brazil and Chile, 1908-1909 by Jay Backus Woodworth (1912)
"Such lithified deposits of loess may in analogy with tillite be called ... Modern unconsolidated Divisions depending Ancient lithified deposits. on form. ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"Dark-brown, partly lithified sandstone 1 7. Yellow to brown and pink cross-bedded sandstone 10 8. Conglomerate series 20 9. Porphyry, gneiss and granite ..."

4. Geological Collections: Dynamical Geology and Petrography by William Otis Crosby (1892)
"Several of the specimens on the second shelf are instructive examples of semi-lithified clays. Two of these (32-33) illustrate the usual mode of occurrence ..."

5. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"... it came from the lithified Lower Bridge beds. It is the only vertebrate fossil from this site that is as old as Zone NP 3 or NP 4 (early Paleocene). ..."

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