The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Hang wall and footwall.
A wall of smoke.
Hanging wall and footwall.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
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.
A wall of prejudice.
This terminology comes from mining.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
Negotiations ran into a brick wall.
Footwall the lower wall of an inclined fault inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other wall anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect.