Boudinage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Boudinage is a noun meaning Synonym of boudin (“a sausage-shaped structure formed by this process”).
Meaning
Synonym of boudin (“a sausage-shaped structure formed by this process”).
More Meanings
- (geology) A process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
Example Sentences
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 […]
Word Forms
- boudinages
Synonyms for boudinage
Depending on context, synonyms include boudin.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boudin, bouzillage, sodbusting, bousillage, basseting, turbation.
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