Roof pendant

[4][page needed] A classic, well-documented example of a roof pendant is the strata that comprise Mount Morrison within the Sierra Nevada in Mono and Fresno counties, California.

It lies midway between Mono Lake on the north and Bishop, California, on the south.

Mount Morrison consists of a roof pendant that underlies an area of 62 km2 (24 sq mi).

The eastern two-thirds of this roof pendant consists of Cambrian to Silurian and Pennsylvanian to Permian metasedimentary strata.

Metavolcanic rocks of Mesozoic age comprise the western third of the roof pendant.

View of Mount Kailash , Tibet (in the right distance), showing both the metasedimentary roof pendant and the underlying granite rock which caused the metamorphosis of the sediments above.