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obˈduct, v.
[f. L. obduct-, ppl. stem of obdūcĕre: see prec.; cf. induct.]
†1. trans. = prec. 1. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Obduct, to couer. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 188 When the Liver is..so obducted and covered with thick skins, that it cannot diffuse its virtue.
2. Geol. To cause to undergo obduction. Hence obˈducted ppl. a.
1971R. G. Coleman in Jrnl. Geophysical Res. LXXVI. 1216/2 Parts of the oceanic crust have been overthrust (obducted) onto thin continental edges. 1974Nature 1 Mar. 38/2 The ophiolites of west Newfoundland and the Burlington Peninsula represent obducted oceanic lithosphere. Ibid. 20 Sept. 259/1 With the development of actual collision between continental blocks a period of tectogenesis and orogenesis (uplift) results in F3 flexuring of the subducted lithosphere, slivers of which are consequently overthrust (obducted) on to the ‘active’ continental block. |