Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicifying
Literary usage of Silicifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The tendency of matter of one kind to concrete together led to the forming of
flint-nodules and the silicifying of shells and other foreign substances. 3. ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1873)
"Soft wood may be most easily preserved, as the silicifying process will here most
rapidly penetrate to the heart of the trunk before it has time to rot. ..."
3. Journal (1873)
"Soft wood may be most easily preserved, as the silicifying process will here most
... and that the silicifying agent is the water of the lake, are erroneous ..."
4. Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the Years 1891 and 1892 by Michigan Geological Survey, Carl Ludwig Rominger, Charles E. Wright, Marshman Edward Wadsworth (1893)
"(4) '; In other places, however, instead of leaching it out more or less completely,
the silicifying waters seem to have decomposed the iron carbonate in ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"Some of the silicifying process went on before the folding of the formations ;
but some also afterward. It is not supposed that thU theory will not require ..."
6. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"... to silica (quartz) by a silicifying process. Silicified trunks of trees, as
well as shells, occur of all geological ages. ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"In other cases, of very common occurrence, all the fossils of a rock, whether it
be limestone or sandstone, are changed to silica (quartz) by a silicifying ..."
8. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"... to successive depositions of silica between the shell and the first-formed
siliceous layer within the cavity, as the silicifying procès« went forward. ..."
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