What is a roof pendant? View Available Hint(s) older rock capping the batholith.

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What is a roof pendant? View Available Hint(s) older rock capping the batholith. This rock would have been the roof of the magma chamber large mineral crystals form in a cooling magma O a V-shaped valley formed by stream processes O magma that migrated through the crust, cooling slowly several miles from the surface a small glacial valley separated from the main glacial trough by a vertical wall Submit Part D How do sheet øints and extoliation domes form in granite plutons? View Available Hint(s) O Compressive force from the collision of the North American and Farallon plates creates stress fractures. alon on glecbmnaig Old rock is weathered by wind and water, cracking. Confining pressure on the plutons is removed through erosion of surrounding rock. Plutons then expand. Water seeps into fractures and freezes, wedging pieces off

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Roof pendant :- following are correct statements

1- older rocks capping the batholith. this rock would have been the roof of Magma chamber

how do sheet joints and exfoliation domes form in Granite Plutons ?

COmpressive force from the collision of the north american and farallon plates creates stress fractures

Old rocks is weathered by wind , wate and cracking

Confining pressure on the plutons is removed through erosion of surrounding rock and plutons then expand

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