When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Hanging wall block geology.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
It is the inclination of the fault plane that is vertical.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arĂȘtes and horns.
This terminology comes from mining.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
Hanging wall definition of hanging wall.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
The upper block or in other words the block above the fault plane is called hanging wall.
The block below the fault plane or in other words beneath the fault plane is called the footwall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
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Hanging wall and footwall.
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The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured.