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 an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along. The fault separates hanging wall serpentinite from the footwall volcanic rocks. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. This terminology comes from mining. Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project. Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern.

Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. Ore body is called the footwall. Other articles where footwall is discussed.

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. Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.