Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process by which compacted sediment loses liquid and turns into stone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hardening into stone; the process of becoming stone.
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- noun geology The
compaction andcementation ofsediment intorock .
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Examples
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The process of compaction and cementation is known as lithification.
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Early phosphogenesis strongly favored the preservation and lithification of phosphate-rich bones and coprolites, probably during periods of marine transgression and sediment starvation.
Two new Taphonomy papers ReBecca Foster 2008
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Early phosphogenesis strongly favored the preservation and lithification of phosphate-rich bones and coprolites, probably during periods of marine transgression and sediment starvation.
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The process of lithification by carbonated springs is still going on.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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The reason for this was that the only ways they could estimate the absolute time-scales involved were all based on very variable phenomena - erosion, weathering, sedimentation and lithification.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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