CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LITHIFY
PRESENT
Present
I lithify
you lithify
he/she/it lithifies
we lithify
you lithify
they lithify
Present continuous
I am lithifying
you are lithifying
he/she/it is lithifying
we are lithifying
you are lithifying
they are lithifying
Present perfect
I have lithified
you have lithified
he/she/it has lithified
we have lithified
you have lithified
they have lithified
Present perfect continuous
I have been lithifying
you have been lithifying
he/she/it has been lithifying
we have been lithifying
you have been lithifying
they have been lithifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I lithified
you lithified
he/she/it lithified
we lithified
you lithified
they lithified
Past continuous
I was lithifying
you were lithifying
he/she/it was lithifying
we were lithifying
you were lithifying
they were lithifying
Past perfect
I had lithified
you had lithified
he/she/it had lithified
we had lithified
you had lithified
they had lithified
Past perfect continuous
I had been lithifying
you had been lithifying
he/she/it had been lithifying
we had been lithifying
you had been lithifying
they had been lithifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will lithify
you will lithify
he/she/it will lithify
we will lithify
you will lithify
they will lithify
Future continuous
I will be lithifying
you will be lithifying
he/she/it will be lithifying
we will be lithifying
you will be lithifying
they will be lithifying
Future perfect
I will have lithified
you will have lithified
he/she/it will have lithified
we will have lithified
you will have lithified
they will have lithified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been lithifying
you will have been lithifying
he/she/it will have been lithifying
we will have been lithifying
you will have been lithifying
they will have been lithifying
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would lithify
you would lithify
he/she/it would lithify
we would lithify
you would lithify
they would lithify
Conditional continuous
I would be lithifying
you would be lithifying
he/she/it would be lithifying
we would be lithifying
you would be lithifying
they would be lithifying
Conditional perfect
I would have lithify
you would have lithify
he/she/it would have lithify
we would have lithify
you would have lithify
they would have lithify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been lithifying
you would have been lithifying
he/she/it would have been lithifying
we would have been lithifying
you would have been lithifying
they would have been lithifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you lithify
we let´s lithify
you lithify
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
lithified
Present Participle
lithifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITHIFY»
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lithify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lithify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sedimentary Basins: Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget
Both fine-grained deep-sea carbonates and siliceous sediments commonly lithify
as a result of recrys- tallization and cementation at burial depths of a hundred to
several hundred meters. Shallow-water carbonates containing high proportions ...
2
California Landscape: Origin and Evolution
The sedimentary rock may itself be eroded into fragments (reworked) to become
new layers of sediment and again lithify into sedimentary rock. Perhaps it is then
buried deeply and metamorphosed or re- melted. Metamorphic rock may, in turn,
...
3
Ecology of Cyanobacteria II: Their Diversity in Space and Time
... photosynthesis was involved in the formation of stromatolites and the discovery
of microfossils supports the idea that cyanobacteria have built these formations.
However, modern microbial mats rarely lithify and doubts have been raised as ...
4
Geology of the Sierra Nevada
The lava flow or the granite may be worn to fragments by wind and weather, to
accumulate in sedimentary layers, which lithify into rock. The sedimentary rock
may itself be eroded into fragments ("reworked") to become new layers of
sediment, ...
5
Integration of Outcrop and Modern Analogs in Reservoir ...
Marine cementation at depths of 60 m or more can partially lithify and transform
carbonate sediment across a platform at rates that are virtually instantaneous
geologically (Grammer et al., 1993b; Grammer et al., 1999). These early marine ...
G. Michael Grammer, Paul Mitchell Harris, Gregor Paul Eberli, 2004
6
Fundamentals of Physical Geography
... a great deal of evidence about the environment in which they were deposited,
whether on a stream bed, a beach, the deep-ocean floor, or elsewhere. Organic
sedimentary rocks lithify from the remains of organisms, both plants and animals.
James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, 2014
Their method is based on calculations on the average chemical composition of
groundwater in siliciclastic sediments at shallow depths, on the volume of such
water necessary to lithify sandstone, on the type of groundwater flow system, and
...
G.V. Chilingarian, K.H. Wolf, 1992
These lower sediments turn to rock through a process called lithification. In
lithification, natural chemical substances left behind by groundwater cement the
grains together. Deposits of silt lithify to form the rock siltstone, and layers of clay
lithify ...
9
Matter: its forms and changes
Sedimentary rocks form when sediments of rock-forming minerals lithify.
Sedimentary rocks are formed within the a. troposphere c. mantle rock layer b.
Moho d. hydrosphere 40. CHAPTER 11 • Water in the Seas and Oceans Select
32 © 1969 ...
10
The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults
Moore and Saffer [2001] emphasized that the temperature range of the smectite-
to-illite transition is characterized by a variety of diagenetic to low-grade
metamorphic reactions and processes that will tend to lithify and thereby
strengthen the ...
Timothy H. Dixon, J. Casey Moore, 2013
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITHIFY»
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lithify is used in the context of the following news items.
Napa company developing greener concrete
To that end, it is working to build a press that can apply “compressive forces so great as to actually lithify mineral grains, turning loose sediment ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Nov 14»
Watershed Materials Awarded $740000 from the National Science …
Additionally, Watershed Materials has reinvented the hydraulic block press to apply compressive forces so great as to actually lithify mineral ... «PR Web, Sep 14»
We Can't Stop Staring At The Tongue Of The Ocean
With time, compaction, and compression, the ooids lithify into limestone. Despite their different origin, these limestones are chemically similar to ... «io9, Mar 14»
Primordial Stone Soup
JS: If we get a handle on what are the physical parameters that cause today's microbial mats to lithify, then we can start to get an idea of how it ... «Space Daily, Jan 07»
