In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.
Hanging wall and footwall in mining.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
The data also showed that the hanging wall and footwall rock mass failure is closely linked to mining activity movements of caved waste rock and the presence of geologic structures.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
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Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
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An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arĂȘtes and horns.
Ore body is called the footwall.
This terminology comes from mining.