coalify

English

Etymology

coal +‎ -ify

Verb

coalify (third-person singular simple present coalifies, present participle coalifying, simple past and past participle coalified)

  1. (paleontology, of a fossil) To change into coal.
    • 2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      The fossils are produced from an approximately 40 cm thick, organic-fragment-rich clayey, sandy mudstone that is rich in coalified root traces, both horizontal and vertical, suggesting a saturated or water-logged anoxic deposit.
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