boudinage
boudinage noun: a process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
Noun
boudinage (countable and uncountable, plural boudinages)
- A process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
- 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.2004, Richard P. Tollo, Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 789
- Synonym of boudin (“a sausage-shaped structure formed by this process”).
- 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 […]1984, Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar
- Synonyms:
- boudin
Synonyms of boudinage
Forms of boudinage
| plural | boudinages |
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Origin of boudinage
From French boudinage. By surface analysis, boudin + -age.
Words formed from boudinage
Questions about boudinage
- What does boudinage mean?
- Boudinage means a process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
- What part of speech is boudinage?
- Boudinage is a noun.
- What is the plural of boudinage?
- The plural of boudinage is boudinages.
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