Hanging Fault Wall

This terminology comes from mining.

Hanging fault wall. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal. A mass of rock overhanging a fault plane. Its strike and its dip. The hanging wall experiences flexural bending which creates extension which in turn creates normal faults.

Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements. The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. Synthetic same sense of dip as the controlling fault and antithetic opposite sense. 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 hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall. Two families of hanging wall faults develop in accordance with coulomb s law.

The underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore compare footwall def. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. The block below is called the footwall. In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.

When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging 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. Hanging wall definition is the upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall.