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
- As for the "spiral petrifactions termed _cornu ammonis_," of which the Jurassic Alps are full, they were not nautili, he said; they could be nothing else than reptiles; seeing that reptiles take almost always the form of a spiral when not in motion; and it was surely more likely, that when petrified they should still retain the spiral disposition, than that "the Indian Ocean should have long ago overflowed the mountains of Europe. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
- The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood or woody materials suddenly become buried under sediment.
- It is a petrifaction — a fossil, existing, it is true, in a fine state of keeping, but still an exanimate stone.
- In the link of petrifaction industry catenary, existence nature forestall and domain of blame nature forestall.
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- Liberalism provides valorization of the individual subject and the rule of law against the reactionary potential of institutional petrifaction and authoritarian principles.
- Among them were specimens of copper pyrites in quartz, sulphate of strontian, foliated gypsum, and numerous calcareous petrifactions. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- So, for instance, the older and etymologically correct but less common petrification has achieved great popularity from its use in D&D and is now over twice as common on the Internet (41000 to 17400 Google pages) over the formerly standard petrifaction. From the Dungeon to the Dictionary « Isegoria
- It will be okay effect extending in petroleum and petrifaction areas.
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