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Definitions of obduction:
  • noun:   (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
  • noun:   (largely obsolete) An autopsy.
  • noun:   (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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