Roof pendant downward extension of the surrounding rock that protrudes into the upper surface of an igneous intrusive body.
Roof pendant definicion.
Roof pendant a downward projection of country rock into a batholith.
A dictionary of earth sciences.
The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths.
In lay terminology sometimes rock hat is used.
Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith.
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.
The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock within the intrusive mass.