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boudinageCylinder-like structures making up a layer of deformed rock. They commonly lie adjacent to each other and are joined by short necks, giving the appearance of a string of sausages (boudin is French for “sausage”). The necks may be filled with recrystallized minerals such as quartz, feldspar, or calcite. Boudinage occurs in a variety of rock types and is one of the more common structures found in folded rocks. |
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| A mineralized shear zone has also been uncovered some 100 m long and 5-7 m wide on the northern part of an island: it is ankeritized with folded quartz and tourmaline veins which underwent some boudinage and the first results available gave 5. |
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