Boudinage

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Boudinaged quartz vein within blueschist, Samos, Greece.
Boudinage in Greenland near Kangerlussuaq
Boudinaged quartz vein in shear foliation, Starlight Pit, Fortnum Gold Mine, Western Australia.
Banded gneiss with dike of granite orthogneiss; competent banded gneiss is boudinaged by ductile shear.

Boudinage is a geological term for structures formed by extension, where a rigid tabular body such as Hornfels, is stretched and deformed amidst less competent surroundings.[1] The competent bed begins to break up, forming sausage-shaped boudins. A boudinage structure is very similar to pillow lava in appearance but in overall formation is very different.

Boudins are typical features of sheared veins and shear zones where, due to stretching along the shear foliation and shortening perpendicular to this, rigid bodies break up. This causes the resulting boudin to be its characteristic sausage or barrel shape. They can also form rectangular structures Ductile deformation conditions also encourage boudinage rather than imbricate fracturing.

In three dimensions, the boudinage may take the form of ribbon-like boudins or chocolate-tablet boudins, depending on the axis and isotropy of extension. They range in size from about 20 m thick to about 1 cm.[2]

Types

There are three different types of boudinage. These include no-slip boudinage, s-slip boudinage, and a-slip boudinage. No-slip boudinage occurs when there is no slip, resulting in a symmetrical structure. S-slip boudinage occurs when the boudin moves in opposition to the shear movement, where A-slip occurs when it moves with the direction of the shear. These types can be further classified into 5 different groups with relation to their general shape. These groups are drawn, torn, domino, gash and shearband boudins. In general, drawn and torn shapes form where there is a no-slip bouninage, domino and gash boudins by A-slip and shearband boudins by S-slip boudinage.[3]

Etymology

Boudinage derives from the French word "boudin", meaning sausage. Boudins were first observed and described by Belgian geologists in the Collignon quarry near Bastogne in the Ardennes (Belgium).

References

  1. ↑ Fossen, H. (2010). Structural Geology. Cambridge University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-521-51664-8. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
  2. ↑ "boudinage." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 06 Oct. 2010 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/75420/boudinage>.
  3. ↑ Goscombe, B.D.; Passchier C.W. & Hand M. (2004). "Boudinage classification: end-member boudin types and modified boudin structures". Journal of Structural Geology 26: 739–763. Bibcode:2004JSG....26..739G. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2003.08.015. Retrieved 6 October 2010. 

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