It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
Footwall hanging wall fault.
Quite often the ore that a mine.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault.
This is quite easy really.
The fault plane is where the action is.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
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.
The block below is called the footwall.
Most faults broken places are essentially inclined planes like this.
Footwall synonyms footwall pronunciation footwall translation english dictionary definition of footwall.
The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
Mainly because the names hanging wall and footwall were named by miners who weren t trying to be cute.
See more at fault.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
The american heritage student science dictionary second edition.
Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.