Kidnapped vs Obduction - What's the difference?
kidnapped | obduction |
(obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
An autopsy.
(geology) The overthrusting of continental crust by oceanic crust or rocks from the mantle, such that the oceanic crust is thrust onto the continental crust, as occurs at a convergent plate boundary when the continental crust is caught in a subduction zone.
* 2012 , Joseph A. DiPietro, Landscape Evolution in the United States (ISBN 0123978068), page 340:
As a verb kidnapped
is (kidnap).As an adjective kidnapped
is subjected to kidnapping.As a noun obduction is
(obsolete) the act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.obduction
English
Noun
- Ongoing accretion at a subduction zone, and the obduction of intact ophiolite slabs, are not considered to be collision.