Foot And Hanging Wall

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.

Foot and hanging wall. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. Other articles where footwall is discussed. An arcuate cliff called the headwall. 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. Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. This terminology comes from mining. Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project.

The fault separates hanging wall serpentinite from the footwall volcanic rocks. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. Hanging wall and footwall.

But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along. Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern.