obduction (English, noun)
expansion: obduction (countable and uncountable, plural obductions)
Senses:
glosses: The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: An autopsy.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: obductions
tags: plural