The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Hanging wall mining definition.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
The ore is mined in horizontal or slightly inclined slices and then filled with waste rock sand or tailings.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
This terminology comes from mining.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arĂȘtes and horns.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.
Hanging wall and footwall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
The rocks on the upper side of an inclined fault plane or mineral vein meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
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