English Explanatory Dictionary

obduction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
  2. An autopsy.
  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.

Word forms

obduction obductions

Etymology

Latin obductio; see Latin ob, ductio.

Related words

obduce obduct
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