The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Hang wall and footwall.
A wall of smoke.
This terminology comes from mining.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
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.
Negotiations ran into a brick wall.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.