Hangwall And Footwall

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Hangwall and footwall.

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Also miners will mine ore not hanging walls or footwalls. The leo pargil shear zone defines the west flank of the dome and separates the footwall rocks of the dome from the haimanta group and the overlying metasedimentary rocks in the hanging wall to the west thiede et al 2006. Hintersberger et al 2010 in press.

This terminology comes from mining. In some kinds of mineral deposits there is ore directly in the fault so. Generally speaking the hanging wall and footwall of a fault are in contact with each other. The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. As nouns the difference between hangingwall and footwall is that hangingwall is while footwall is geology the section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall. In a non vertical fault where the fault plane dips the footwall is the section of the fault that lies under the fault while the hanging wall lies over the fault the names come about from the. Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.

The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine. Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.