Foot And Hanging Wall

This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.

Foot and hanging wall.

In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. Talisman mining ltd farm in to the lucknow high grade gold project. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.

Hole al19 025 drilled the promontorio zone from the eastern. Ore body is called the footwall. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Other articles where footwall is discussed.

The fault separates hanging wall serpentinite from the footwall volcanic rocks. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Other articles where hanging wall is discussed.

This terminology comes from mining. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns.