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