verb
- to change into stone or a stony substance
Usage: geology
Examples
- Sediments lithify over millions of years to form sedimentary rock.
- The organic material began to lithify under intense pressure.
- Heat and pressure can lithify loose sand into sandstone.
- Ancient mud deposits lithified into shale formations.
- The process that lithifies sediment is called diagenesis.
- Calcium carbonate helps lithify coral reef structures.