lithified

Here was once shallow seawater, teeming with spirally little ammonites dutifully dying, falling into mud and getting lithified into cute fossils.

South by Southwest « Squares of Wheat 2008

Here was once shallow seawater, teeming with spirally little ammonites dutifully dying, falling into mud and getting lithified into cute fossils.

February « 2008 « Squares of Wheat 2008

When the whole sedimentary pile is lithified the different grain-sizes would give the different layers different physical properties and can be split along them to uncover the ripples.

Fossilized Ripples - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Vulnerability of arctic coasts to sea-level rise and erosion, showing land areas of the Arctic with elevations less than 10 m above mean sea level (red), regions with unlithified coasts (green), and regions with lithified coasts (brown) [1].

Sea-level rise and coastal stability in the Arctic 2009

Beyond the edge of the continents, these sediments are lithified to form shales, limestones, and sandstones that make up the continental shelves, slopes, and rise.

Mountain 2008

Overtime these sediments can then become lithified.

Mountain 2008

Seems some geologists and anthropologists discovered what they thought might be human foot-prints in lithified volcanic ash beds near Puebla, Mexico.

Plaintiffs' response to DI/FTE - The Panda's Thumb 2005

The strata, although quite lithified, are certainly either latest Pliocene or early Quaternary, probably

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

Oftentimes the formation is only partially lithified

X-bit labs 2009

Though even fully lithified rock is capable of some amount of plastic deformation.

X-bit labs 2009