NOUN
- the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
- a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form
How To Use petrifaction In A Sentence
- I started glowing in my absolute petrifaction of the dark.
- Though reddish-brown and hardened by petrifaction, the original character of the wood was still evident.
- In petrifaction (sensu stricto) the organic cell walls may decay and be replaced by another phase of minerals, usually with a similar chemical composition to the first phase.
- However, Mesozoic examples of insect wood boring occur in petrifactions, many of which were deposited in drier, more riparian habitats.
- We are constantly told that geological processes like petrifaction, fossilisation, and stalagmite formation take millions of years - an unimaginably long time.
- Liberalism provides valorization of the individual subject and the rule of law against the reactionary potential of institutional petrifaction and authoritarian principles.
- Kinamori looked at him, absolute petrifaction written on her face.
- Negras for one of the strata of compact limestone without grains of quartz and petrifactions, which are frequently found amidst the tertiary conglomerate of Barigon and of the Castillo de Cumana; the saliferous clay of Araya would appear to them analogous to the plastic clay of Paris, * or to the clayey shelves (dief et tourtia) of secondary sandstone with lignites, containing salt-springs, in Belgium and Westphalia. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Cuticle was not preserved on the surfaces of the compressions, although surface features could be observed in parts of some fossils preserved as limonite petrifactions.
