Roof Pendant Definicion

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. A dictionary of earth sciences. In lay terminology sometimes rock hat is used. Roof pendant downward extension of the surrounding rock that protrudes into the upper surface of an igneous intrusive body.

Also known as pendant. Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith. 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.