It came to a patch of sand-tawny sand, heavily mineralized.
"Sand Doom"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Happily, in Britain, our coal-pits, or mineralized forests, have supplied the place of our living woods; or man, regardless of the fitness of all the parts to the perfection of every natural result, might here, as in other long-peopled countries, ignorantly have thwarted the course of Nature by cutting down the timber, which, acting on the electricity of the clouds, affects their density, and causes them to fall in fertilizing showers.
"A Morning's Walk from London to Kew"
Richard Phillips
For it is difficult to see why the more enduring husk should not have become mineralized equally with the cavity within.
"Animals of the Past"
Frederic A. Lucas