Hanging Fault Wall

The underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore compare footwall def.

Hanging fault wall.

Its strike and its dip. A mass of rock overhanging a fault plane. Two families of hanging wall faults develop in accordance with coulomb s law. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.

Hanging wall definition of hanging wall by the free dictionary. The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. Hanging wall definition is the upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.

Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal. Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. This terminology comes from mining.

The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. They intersect often creating very complex fault patterns. In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall. Synthetic same sense of dip as the controlling fault and antithetic opposite sense.

The hanging wall experiences flexural bending which creates extension which in turn creates normal faults. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. 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.