The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths.
Roof pendant definition.
Also known as pendant.
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.
The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock within the intrusive mass.
Definition of roof pendant a downward projection of country rock into an igneous intrusion.
Downward projection or sag into an igneous intrusion of the country rock of the roof.
Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith.