Most likely, a typographical error.
It may be a confusion of two terms:
1 - solidification (i.e. the process of becoming solid; converse of liquification or, in some instances, gasification); when liquid water turns into ice, it solidifies. When solid wax melts, it liquefies.
2 - lithification (i.e. the process by which sediments and other materials compact and turn into solid rock).