obduction
accretionary wedge
ophiolitic
subcontinental
Mohorovičić discontinuity
Moho
Mohorovicic discontinuity
subcrustal
crustaceal
shock
seismic disturbance
asthenosphere
shoreface
subduction
subbenthic
diastrophism
amphiatlantic
crustation
profile
tectonic movement
crustal movement
geosynclinal
leucogranite
sublittoral
orogeny
subcrustaceous
isostasy
suboceanic
tectonism
geanticlinal
subcrustose
warping
tectosphere
tectonic uplift
abrasion platform
Urgonian
overcrust
interplate
transatlantic
subseafloor
upheaval
intracrustal
overplate
slab pull
orogenesis
coastal squeeze
transoceanic
bathyal zone
lowstand
undersea
incrustation
offing
folding
plate tectonic theory
bank
bathyal district
crustiness
plate tectonics
tectonics
downwarp
continental slope
encrustation
submarine
Norwegian Sea
orthogeosyncline
North Atlantic
upthrust
epeirogenesis
sea thongs
contraposed
tombolo
seafloor spreading
bathyal
seabound
plate
crustaceological
dryside
tectonic
horst
faulting
fracture
break
geological fault
epeiric
massif
transgression
neotectonics
Victoria Land
fault
sea stack
shift
across the pond
geosphere
ridge push
lithosphere
subsea

English words for '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.'

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