Petrification

Petrification (as a process) or petrification , sometimes also petrification or petrification (from Latin petra , stone and facere , to make), stands for:

• the transformation of dead living beings into mineral matter, see fossilization
• the transformation of a sediment into a sedimentary rock, see diagenesis
• a pictorial expression for lapse into fright
• a motif in the world of legends, see petrifying (mythology)
• Petrification of the law , see Derogation # Material derogation
• the adoption of form elements from timber construction in ashlar , see petrification (architecture)

Petrification (as an object) stands for:

• the mineralized remnant of a living being, see fossil

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.