Obduction is a geological process whereby denser oceanic crust (and even upper mantle) is scraped off a descending ocean plate at a convergent plate boundary...

subduction continuing until the final closure of the oceanic basin and the obduction of oceanic ophiolite onto India and the beginning of continent-continent...

boundary, exhumation occurs by thrusting in the accretionary wedge, by obduction and/or as a process during the orogenic cycle (i.e. mountain building...

2012). "An outline of the Geology of New Caledonia; from Permian-Mesozoic Southeast Gondwanaland active margin to Cenozoic obduction and supergene evolution"...

during the Early Ordovician with the accretion of terranes and ophiolite obduction during the Late Ordovician and continent-continent collision at the end...

Island, the plates slide past each other (Alpine Fault), with slight obduction of the Pacific Plate over the Australian Plate, forming Southern Alps...

with subduction of the Tethyan oceanic crust underneath Italy and the obduction of parts of the ancient seafloor onto the continents. Later extension...

formation include obduction and subduction at convergent plate boundaries. Malaita and Ulawa in the Solomon Islands are the result of obduction while the effects...

Paul; Wan, Xiaoqiao (June 2005). "Paleocene-Eocene record of ophiolite obduction and initial India-Asia collision, south central Tibet". Tectonics. 24...

Northland Allochthon of New Zealand: Response of a siliceous claystone to obduction". Whence the mountains?: inquiries into the evolution of orogenic systems :...

basic and acidic igneous rocks) was formed by partial melting during the obduction of the ophiolite onto the continental crust. Although an earlier stage...

In geology, strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or attitude of a planar geologic feature. A feature's strike...

This geological phenomenon, known as obduction, makes it a site for studying the processes of oceanic crust formation, subduction, and obduction. It covers...

implications on economic geology such as the mining for precious minerals and the extraction of oil and gas. The late Cretaceous obduction event created the...

emplaced into or overthrust on continental crust by a process called obduction, rather than carried down into the mantle. The emplacement may occur during...

due to the presence of Patagonian slab window and the obduction of the Nazca plate, the geological process that happened in different period are not the...

1994). "Pliocene obducted, rotated and migrated ultramafic rocks and obduction-induced anatectic granite, SW Seram and Ambon, Eastern Indonesia". Journal...

(1986). "Upper Palaeozoic ophiolite generation and obduction in south Cornwall". Journal of the Geological Society. 143 (1): 117–124. Bibcode:1986JGSoc.143...

Hadramaut Arch. To the east of the Rub' al-Khali Basin, this resulted in the obduction of the Semail Ophiolite, an oceanic crustal sequence which today is widely...

tectonic plates collision event involved early thrusting with partial obduction (overthrusting of oceanic lithosphere onto continental lithosphere at...

Journal of Glaciology. 8 (52): 107–129. doi:10.1017/S0022143000020797. "Geology glossary". www.volcanodiscovery.com. Retrieved 25 September 2001. "How...

island arc complex causes ophiolite generation in a back-arc basin and obduction due to compression. The continental margin, promontories and reentrants...

scrunched up and sheared laterally into mountain ranges, in a process called obduction. To complete the analogy, the huge Olympus Mons and the Tharsis Montes...

(1986). "Upper Palaeozoic ophiolite generation and obduction in south Cornwall". Journal of the Geological Society. 143 (3): 117–124. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.143...

meaning other, and chthon, meaning earth. For other possible mechanisms see obduction. An allochthon which is isolated from the rock that pushed it into position...

oceanic crust (obduction of the Rheic Ocean) the terrains once belonging to the Laurussia continent Geology of the Iberian Peninsula – Geology of Spain, Portugal...

of "Caribbean" and instead classified as Atlantic; this is primarily a geological rather than cultural or environmental distinction. "World Population Prospects...

water and onto continents. This process, however it happened, was coined obduction. The processes could possibly vary depending on the active or passive...

(basins). Forearc regions are also where ophiolites are emplaced should obduction occur, but such deposits are not continuous and can often be removed by...

in the passive continental margin on the Arabian Plate. However, the obduction of Neotethys oceanic crust during the Cretaceous (145–66 mya), and the...