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fossilization|ˌfɒsɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[f. fossilize v. + -ation. Cf. F. fossilisation.]
1. The action or process of fossilizing; the conversion of vegetable and animal remains into fossils.
1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) I. 124 The human species alone..entirely escaped fossilization. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 142 Draw up one of the piles driven into the Danube by Trajan, and see how far in it the process of fossilization has proceeded. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 3 Fossilisation may be applied in a general sense to all the processes through which an organic body passes in order to become a fossil.
2. The process of becoming, or state of having become, antiquated.
1886[see fluidity 1 b.] |