The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
Hanging fault wall.
In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
They intersect often creating very complex fault patterns.
The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall.
Hanging wall definition of hanging wall by the free dictionary.
The underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore compare footwall def.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.
The hanging wall experiences flexural bending which creates extension which in turn creates normal faults.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall.
The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
Its strike and its dip.
Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.
Hanging wall definition is the upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall.
Two families of hanging wall faults develop in accordance with coulomb s law.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Synthetic same sense of dip as the controlling fault and antithetic opposite sense.
This terminology comes from mining.
A mass of rock overhanging a fault plane.