“lithify”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

lithify

释义

lithify, v.|ˈlɪθɪfaɪ|
[f. Gr. λίθ-ος stone + -ify.]
trans. To form into stone. Chiefly as ˈlithified pa. pple. and ppl. a.
1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. v. (1879) 478 All these deposits are imperfectly lithified sand and clays in nearly horizontal position.Ibid. 480 The rocks of this period..are mostly imperfectly lithified.1937Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXIX. 9 This is the normal beach-rock—lithified sands containing a few boulders of coral here and there.1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation x. 215 When clays are lithified by compaction and cementation, they become mudstones or limestones with fossil mud cracks on their surfaces.1971Nature 2 Apr. 287/1 The rock was thus almost certainly lithified during the lower relative sea level of the Pleistocene.

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