This terminology comes from mining.
Foootwall and hanging wall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arĂȘtes and horns.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
In a non vertical fault where the fault plane dips the footwall is the section of the fault that lies under the fault while the hanging wall lies over the fault the names come about from the.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
A wall of smoke.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
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.
A wall of water.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
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.