![]() This assemblage consists of deep-marine sedimentary rock ( chert, limestone, clastic sediments), volcanic rocks ( pillow lavas, volcanic glass, volcanic ash, sheeted dykes and gabbros) and peridotite (mantle rock). Obduction of oceanic lithosphere produces a characteristic set of rock types called an ophiolite. Obduction, which is less common, normally occurs in plate collisions at orogenic belts (where an oceanic plate that is subducting scrapes some of its material onto the continental plate, making an accretionary wedge) or back-arc basins (places where the edge of a continent is pulled away from the rest of the continent due to the stress of plate collision). When oceanic and continental plates converge, normally the denser oceanic crust sinks under the continental crust in the process of subduction. ![]() Obduction is a geological process whereby denser oceanic crust (and even upper mantle) are scraped off a descending ocean plate at a convergent plate boundary and thrust on top of an adjacent plate. ![]() An example of obduction: while most of the oceanic crust subducts below the continental crust down into the mantle, part of the crust is obducted, pushed onto the continental crust, forming an accretionary prism. ![]()
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