Word info

lithified

Speech parts

1. lithified - Adjective

2. lithified - Verb

Meaning

lithified

simple past and past participle of lithify

lithified (comparative more lithified, superlative most lithified)

Having undergone lithification.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Tillite In cases where till has been indurated or lithified by subsequent burial into solid rock, it is known as the sedimentary rock tillite. Source: Internet

Cross-bedded layers of stacks of lithified dunes can produce the cross-hatching patterns, such as those seen in the Zion National Park in the western United States. Source: Internet

Shales worldwide are, to a considerable extent, simply soil clays that have been formed in the pedosphere and eroded and deposited in the ocean basins, to become lithified at a later date. Source: Internet

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