Which preposition to use with accretion

of Occurrences 21%

Around this segregation accumulated accretions of opinion, layer on layer emanating from the mind of her mate.

in Occurrences 3%

My theory is that the mound was built by gradual accretion in the following manner: That when a death occurred a funeral pyre was erected on the mound, upon which the body was placed.

from Occurrences 2%

There are two senses in which we can understand an evolution of this idea of God; first, as Mr. Tylor understands it, in the sense of a development by accretion from a simple germ, from the idea of a phantasm nowise a god, to that of a spirit still lacking divinity, thence to that of a Supreme Spirit in whom first the essential definition of God is somewhat fulfilled.

to Occurrences 1%

EXOGENS, the name for the order of plants whose stem is formed by successive accretions to the outside of the wood under the bark.

Which preposition to use with  accretion