Hanging Fault Wall

Synthetic same sense of dip as the controlling fault and antithetic opposite sense.

Hanging fault wall.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall. The hanging wall experiences flexural bending which creates extension which in turn creates normal faults. Hanging wall definition of hanging wall by the free dictionary.

When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal. The underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore compare footwall def. Hanging wall definition is the upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall.

A mass of rock overhanging a fault plane. Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements. Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall. The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.

Its strike and its dip. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.

Two families of hanging wall faults develop in accordance with coulomb s law. The block below is called the footwall. They intersect often creating very complex fault patterns. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.