Hang Wall And Footwall

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