Foot And Hanging Wall

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

Foot and hanging wall.

Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. This terminology comes from mining.

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Other articles where footwall is discussed. The fault separates hanging wall serpentinite from the footwall volcanic rocks. Ore body is called the footwall.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Hanging wall and footwall. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.

Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. An arcuate cliff called the headwall. Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern.