This terminology comes from mining.
Hanging wall down geology.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
Zones of crustal extension.
The block below is called the footwall.
Normal faults are common.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Rift valleys are formed by the sliding of the hanging walls downward many thousands of metres where they then become the valley floors.
Hanging wall up footwall down.
A fault in which hanging wall hw has apparently come down with respect to the footwall fw is termed as normal fault.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
ø such a fault in which hanging wall has apparently moved down with respect to footwall is classified as a normal fault.
Fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Hanging wall and footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins of tectonic plates.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.