In A Fault The Hanging Wall
Fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.
In a fault the hanging wall. The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. In thrust or reverse faults the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall and in strike slip faults it moves horizontally relative to the footwall.
Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called. This terminology comes from mining. The block below is called the footwall. Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.
Hanging wall and footwall. This is true of normal faults.