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Petrification

noun
1.
The process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape.  Synonym: petrifaction.





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... depth the petrification had extended, Mr. Bass scratched away the sand from the foot of many of the stumps, and in no instance found it to have proceeded more than three or four inches beneath the surface of the sand, as it then lay; for at that depth the brown and crumbling remains of the root came into ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins


Words linked to "Petrification" :   fossilisation, fossilization, petrify


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