Foot And Hanging Wall

Hanging wall and footwall.

Foot and hanging wall.

Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project. Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. Ore body is called the footwall. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.

Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. The fault separates hanging wall serpentinite from the footwall volcanic rocks.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. An arcuate cliff called the headwall. Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. This terminology comes from mining.