The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock within the intrusive mass.
Roof pendant definicion.
Downward projection or sag into an igneous intrusion of the country rock of the roof.
The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths.
In structural geology a roof pendant which also known as a pendant is a mass of country rock that projects downward into and is entirely surrounded by an igneous intrusion such as a batholith or other pluton.
The removal of roof rocks by erosion may leave remnants of roof pendants which resemble xenoliths in the intruding rock.
Earliest use found in reginald daly 1871 1957.
A dictionary of earth sciences.
Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith.
Roof pendant downward extension of the surrounding rock that protrudes into the upper surface of an igneous intrusive body.