How To Use Petrifaction In A Sentence
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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
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The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood or woody materials suddenly become buried under sediment.
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It is a petrifaction — a fossil, existing, it is true, in a fine state of keeping, but still an exanimate stone.
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In the link of petrifaction industry catenary, existence nature forestall and domain of blame nature forestall.
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Boing Boing
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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.
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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
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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
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It will be okay effect extending in petroleum and petrifaction areas.
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Mark Dery's Literary Spam
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Such-and-such petrifaction: I am the employee of this company, corruption of our industry leader is serious, informal cadre of level of a family, estimation can be embezzled 1 million.
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I started glowing in my absolute petrifaction of the dark.
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The fossilization process known as petrifaction usually begins when a tree or log is buried in silica-rich, alkaline volcanic ash or mud.
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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.
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These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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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
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Kinamori looked at him, absolute petrifaction written on her face.
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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.
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We are constantly told that geological processes like petrifaction, fossilisation, and stalagmite formation take millions of years - an unimaginably long time.
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However, Mesozoic examples of insect wood boring occur in petrifactions, many of which were deposited in drier, more riparian habitats.
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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.
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Though reddish-brown and hardened by petrifaction, the original character of the wood was still evident.