boudinage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

boudinage boudinages

Etymology

From French boudinage. By surface analysis, boudin + -age.

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