Boudinage

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 […]