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obduction

overthrusting of oceanic lithosphere onto continental lithosphere at a convergent plate boundary
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obduction

Summary

obduction is a geological process[1]. obduction draws 61 Wikipedia views per month (geological_process category, ranking #8 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • obduction's instance of is recorded as geological process[3].
  • obduction's opposite of is recorded as subduction[4].
  • obduction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012khn[5].
  • obduction's facet of is recorded as plate tectonics[6].
  • obduction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 192717286[7].
  • obduction's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C192717286[8].
  • obduction's A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID is recorded as 5740[9].

Why It Matters

obduction draws 61 Wikipedia views per month (geological_process category, ranking #8 of 22).[2] obduction has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). obduction. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/obduction-q772239-2
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_obduction-q772239-2_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{obduction}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/obduction-q772239-2}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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