0 the process of becoming a fossil (= something preserved in rock for a very long period): --
Perhaps fossilization of errors is inevitable in second language acquisition.
the fossilization of his outlook
Fossilization has set in to our prison system and new initiatives are stifled.
A fallen and buried tree becomes a candidate for fossilization when all conditions are right.
In the fossilization process, minerals replace the constituents of bones, turning them to stone.
Studies of life and fossilization processes in extreme environments show surface damage and drilling is essential for astrobiology studies.
Complete valves and articulated pairs are not uncommon, suggesting either fossilization in situ or after minimal displacement.
During the process of fossilization, both the worms and their tubes were strongly compressed.
Usually less apparent are diversity changes within the coal-bearing strata, where sampling bias and low fossilization potential are of only minor importance.
Why, in other words, should suppliance of mor phology show apparently consistent evidence of fossilization at a nonnative level, when underlying knowledge does not ?
The chemistry will affect the biota and the fossilization processes.
These involve primarily changes in original plant diversity, as well as in the fossilization potential related to groundwater table level and various sampling biases.
From the synchronic point of view fossilization entails that the single elements of a fossilized whole do not function as independent linguistic expressions.
