litho-, lith-, -lith, -lithic, -lite, -liths, -lites

A large mass of intrusive igneous rock having an exposed surface area of more than forty square miles, with no apparent base or floor of older rock: "In their oil research, the scientists described the abyssolith layers of rock in which the fossil fuel could be found."

"The term abyssolith is part of the vocabulary used in the science of petrology."

A noncombustible rock that is organic or formed by organic accumulation of minerals; the category includes diatomite, radiolarite, phosphorite, and some limestones.

In early Greek sculpture, a statue with a stone head, hands, and feet, and a wooden trunk.

A stony meteorite.

A calculus in an abnormal situation, or one composed of unusual materials.

A calculus is an abnormal concretion occurring within an animal body and is usually composed of mineral salts.

1. A calcareous deposit in the wall of a blood vessel.
2. An arteriolith (a calcareous deposit in an arterial wall or thrombus) or a phlebolith (a concretion or stone within a cardiovascular vein).

Petrified human remains or a fossil ascribed to the human species.

The presence of concretions (solids) in the vermiform appendix.

1. The field of astrogeology (a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies; such as, the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites) which focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions by which they form.
2. The science of meteoritic stones.