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Obduction
Meaning
Noun
●
The
act
of
drawing
or
laying over
, as a covering.
●
In Death:
An autopsy.
●
In 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.
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Origin
obduction
English
obductio
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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