Foot And Hanging Wall

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

Foot and hanging wall.

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. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Ore body is called the footwall.

Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project. Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. 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.

Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. Hanging wall and footwall. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.

Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern. 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.