obduction

Meaning

Noun

• The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
• An autopsy.
• 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.

Origin

• Latin obductio; see Latin ob, ductio.