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lithified

/ˈlɪθɪfaɪd/

Traduzioni

lithifyverb

lithified

Past Simple

lithified

Past Simple

lithified

Past Participle

lithifying

Gerund

/ˈlɪθɪfaɪ/

Over millions of years, sediment can lithify into solid rock.

За миллионы лет осадок может литофицироваться в твердую породу.

Sinonimi

lithifyverb

To transform sediment or other material into solid rock, typically through compaction and cementation.

Over millions of years, the sediment at the bottom of the ocean began to lithify into limestone.

(intransitive) To undergo lithification; to become converted into solid rock.

The pumice fragments gradually lithified beneath successive layers of sediment.