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Meaning of boudinage | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Synonym of boudin (“a sausage-shaped structure formed by this process”).
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“Extreme attenuation and extensive chocolate-tablet boudinage of the plutonic complex that forms the uppermost Valley Spring domain occurred as the result of shortening perpendicular to S2 and extension parallel to it.”
“The shaly host is usually elongate, lensoid, xenolith-like boudinages in the phyllitic country rocks. The boudinages are mostly rounded to oval, though elongate tongue like shapes are also common, and are characterized by […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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