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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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- 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...
- S****n stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire;...
- The lowest layer is upper cherty stromatolites that has been partially silicified and dolomitized. Paul Knauth, a geologist at Arizona State University...
- such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified. This hypothesis would certainly explain the complex shapes of flint nodules...
- Probable cyanobacteria in the vertical section of a silicified biofilm from the Lower Cretaceous. Very shallow hypersaline environment of the Urgonian...
- evidence that silica is deposited directly as quartz. Wood can become silicified very rapidly in silica-rich hot springs. While wood petrified in this...
- Silicified and mineralized breccia. Light gray is mostly dolomite with a little translucent quartz. Dark gray is jasperoid and ore minerals. Veinlet along...
- Stromatoliteslaminated microbialites (Precambrian silicified stromatolite, Strelley Pool Chert, (Pilbara Craton), W. Australia)...
- these circular structures was found. Finally, field observations found silicified sandstone ****s and igneous rocks, such as syenite, porphyries, tephrites...