roof pendant meaning in Hindi

Examples

1. Roof pendants typically have been strongly metamorphosed through the processes of contact metamorphism.
2. Most of the remaining rocks are exposed as'roof pendants'in the eastern metamorphic zone.
3. A classic, well-documented example of a roof pendant is the strata that comprise granitic rocks enclose and intrude the pendant rocks.
4. These pendants are part of a discontinuous,-long, northwest-trending belt of roof pendants that are preserved within the granitic plutons of Sierra Nevada.
5. 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.
6. The earliest rocks in the Sierra Nevada are metamorphic roof pendants of Paleozoic age, the oldest rocks being metasedimentary rocks from the Cambrian in the Coarsegold and west of the Tehachapi Pass ) and also east of the Sierra Crest.
7. 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.