obˈduct, v.
[f. L. obduct-, ppl. stem of obdūcĕre: see prec.; cf. induct.]
† 1. trans. = prec. 1. Obs.
| 1623 Cockeram, Obduct, to couer. 1646 Sir 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.
| 1971 R. G. Coleman in Jrnl. Geophysical Res. LXXVI. 1216/2 Parts of the oceanic crust have been overthrust (obducted) onto thin continental edges. 1974 Nature 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. |