Foot And Hanging Wall

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Foot and hanging wall.

Other articles where footwall is discussed. Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project. 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. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.

In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. Ore body is called the footwall. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.

This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. This terminology comes from mining. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.