Meaning of boudinage | Babel Free

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

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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 […]”

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