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Word: Accretionary_prism
Speech Type: Noun
Definition:
a mass of sedimentary material scraped off a region of oceanic crust during subduction and piled up at the edge of a continental crustal plate.
Short Definition:mass of sedimentary material scraped off region of oceanic crust during subduction
Variant Forms:
- accretionary wedge
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