obduction English

Meaning obduction meaning

What does obduction mean?

obduction noun

— (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.

— (largely, _, obsolete) 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.