Definition of hanging wall.
Hanging wall fault definition.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
A wall of prejudice.
A wall of smoke.
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Edges of horsts and grabens.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
The block below the fault plane or in other words beneath the fault plane is called the footwall.
Basin and range region.
The block below is called the footwall.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
Type of fault map symbol definition type of regional stress geologic associations.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
Negotiations ran into a brick wall.
In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.
The fault plane is where the action is.
Hanging wall and footwall.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
The upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.
Hanging wall the upper wall of an inclined fault inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other wall anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect.
The upper block or in other words the block above the fault plane is called hanging wall.
A wall of water.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
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Zones of crustal extension.
Hanging wall and footwall.
This terminology comes from mining.
In models without a plastic sheet numerous secondary normal faults form in the hanging wall of the master normal fault.
Structural analysis indicates the presence of down to basin footwall and hanging wall faults associated with rollover anticlines and horst block back to back fault.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.