Earliest use found in reginald daly 1871 1957.
Roof pendant definicion.
The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or batholiths.
The roof pendants occur as isolated pieces of the surrounding rock within the intrusive mass.
Downward projection or sag into an igneous intrusion of the country rock of the roof.
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.
Roof pendant definition is a downward projection or sag of the roof of a batholith.
A dictionary of earth sciences.
The removal of roof rocks by erosion may leave remnants of roof pendants which resemble xenoliths in the intruding rock.