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Obduction

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    An autopsy. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    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. countable, uncountable

    "Around Arabia - as well as in the Himalayas - these obductions completely obliterated the Neotethyan ocean, which in this time frame is represented only by a few exotic blocks and by Permo-Triassic pelagic sediments found at the sole of the Cretaceous ophiolites."

Etymology

Latin obductio; see Latin ob, ductio.

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