"oceanize" meaning in English

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          "word": "oceanization"
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        {
          "ref": "1977, Mikhail Vladimirovich Muratov, The Origin of Continents and Ocean Basins, Mir Publishers, page 157",
          "text": "Subsequently V.V. Tikhomirov considered the basification of continental crust, with its conversion into oceanic crust as a result of basic metasomatism, that is, the withdrawal of fluids from the mantle to replace and thus oceanize the granitic-metamorphic layer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alan Nairn, The Arctic Ocean, Springer, page 160",
          "text": "Shatskiy (1935) first suggested that large blocks of the continent foundered and have been oceanized where ocean now exists.",
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          "ref": "2014, Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü, Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science, Princeton University Press, page 146",
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        "To cover in ocean."
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          "cover",
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          "ocean"
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        "(transitive, geology) To cover in ocean."
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  "word": "oceanize"
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