lithic
Example Sentences
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The other burns lithic landscapes, which is to say, biomass buried and turned to stone in the geologic past.
From Slate ● May 16, 2016
The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
His research interests include archaeological methods, lithic analysis, and the origins of modern culture.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 24, 2012
All of her ash was lithic, old stony stuff created from her own edifice.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 7, 2012
Hence the immediate cause of the deposition of lithic acid gravel is generally a destructible acid of very weak powers: even, perhaps, in some instances, the carbonic acid.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
