obduction
noun
High School
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.
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