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Silicified
Silicified Si*lic"i*fied, a. (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.
Silicified
Silicify Si*lic"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silicified; p. pr. & vb. n. Silicifying.] [L. silex, silicis, a flint + -fy: cf. F. silicifier.] (Chem.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon. The specimens found . . . are completely silicified. --Say. Note: The silica may take the form of agate, chalcedony, flint, hornstone, or crystalline quartz.

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- Retrieved Feb 15, 2012. Sigleo, Anne (1978). "Organic geochemistry of silicified wood, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona". Geochimica et Cosmochimica...
- for silicification. Some examples are silicified limestones of Miocene Astoria Formation in Washington, silicified ignimbrite in El Tatio Geyser Field in...
- Silica pseudomorph after gypsum crystals and silicified serpulid polychaete tubes...
- such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified. This hypothesis would certainly explain the complex shapes of flint nodules...
- Silicified and mineralized breccia. Light gray is mostly dolomite with a little translucent quartz. Dark gray is jasperoid and ore minerals. Veinlet along...
- 065.0101. Schwarzhans, Werner W.; Jagt, John W. M. (1 November 2021). "Silicified otoliths from the Maastrichtian type area (Netherlands, Belgium) do****ent...
- Stromatoliteslaminated microbialites (Precambrian silicified stromatolite, Strelley Pool Chert, (Pilbara Craton), W. Australia)...
- diagenetic cherty nodules, and stromatolitic limestone and is intensively silicified. The hydrothermal alteration, which created this breccia, has been dated...
- evidence that silica is deposited directly as quartz. Wood can become silicified very rapidly in silica-rich hot springs. While wood petrified in this...
- Stonehenge megaliths include smaller bluestones and larger s****ns (a term for silicified sandstone boulders found in the chalk downs of southern England). The...