Usually means: Collision pushing oceanic crust overland.
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  1. obduction: Merriam-Webster
  2. obduction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obduction: Wordnik
  4. obduction: Wiktionary
  5. obduction: Dictionary.com
  6. Obduction (video game), Obduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Obduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. obduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Obduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. obduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. obduction: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obduction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (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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