Obduction n. : The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.Example:How can volcanoes occur when plates obduct?TaxonomyObduction, continental crust, free encyclopedia, oceanic crust, mantle rocks, orogeny, fragment, continental plates, subduction zones, volcanism, ultramafic rocks, mountain ranges, search, episode, crust, continent, ophiolites, crustal rocks.Defination from the web:Obduction is the overthrusting of continental crust by oceanic crust or mantle rocks at a convergent plate boundary. ... Obduction often occurs where a small tectonic plate is caught between two larger plates, with the crust (both island arc and oceanic) welding ...
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