Roof Pendant Geology

Geology of paleozoic rocks in eastern sierra nevada roof pendants california 247 figure 9.

Roof pendant geology.

Posts about roof pendant written by marli miller. Geology of the gull lake pendant modified from stevens and greene 1999. The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths. The presence of roof pendants indicates that the igneous body is being observed near its upper surface.

Cretaceous batholiths and roof pendants. The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock. They are exposed by erosion of the overlying rock. In figure 2 below an overview of the general geology of the best studied roof pendants of the sierra nevada is given.

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. In roof pendant metamorphosed through the processes of contact metamorphism during which heat and fluids from the intrusion have reconstituted the enclosed rock. The photos from the last posting were from the sierra nevada batholith called a batholith because it consists of many many smaller intrusive bodies that collectively define a much larger intrusive complex that doesn t even have a well defined root.