A roof pendant is an erosional remnant that was created by the removal by erosion of the overlying country rock that formed the roof of the igneous intrusion that encloses it.
Roof pendant definition.
Downward projection or sag into an igneous intrusion of the country rock of the roof.
The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock within the intrusive mass.
If this downward protruding mass of roof rock still has a connection to the main surrounding mass of country rock they are known by structural geologists as either septa or screens.
The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths.
Also known as pendant.
Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith.