The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Hang wall and footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
A wall of water.
Negotiations ran into a brick wall.
This terminology comes from mining.
Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
The leo pargil shear zone defines the west flank of the dome and separates the footwall rocks of the dome from the haimanta group and the overlying metasedimentary rocks in the.
Hanging wall and footwall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Footwall the lower wall of an inclined fault inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other wall anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.