obduction

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
2. noun An autopsy.
3. noun 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.

Similar words

ophiolite overlay overplate overlier absorption onlay covering subligation overlaying accretion

Often followed by

of and in zone at onto or