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Obduction - What does it mean?

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obduction

English

Noun

  • (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:
    • Ongoing accretion at a subduction zone, and the obduction of intact ophiolite slabs, are not considered to be collision.

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