[1890–95; granitize + -ation]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, honky-tonk, masochism, neoclassicism, phoneme-ation is used to form nouns from stems ending in -ate (separation) and, on this model, to form nouns from stems of other origin (starvation). Other words that use the affix -ation include: complementation, generalization, neutralization, polarization, transportation
Examples of 'granitization' in a sentence
granitization
The absence of microcline in these shows that no metasomatic granitization has taken place.
N. Edelman, L. Bergman, B. Lindberg 1986, 'An intrusive-like tectonic breccia in the archipelago of southwestern Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume58/sgs_bt_058_1_pages_235_240.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)