Hanging Fault Wall

Its strike and its dip.
Hanging fault wall. The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine. Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called. Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. They are driven by significant tectonic events that affect large areas like continental collisions. The keweenaw fault is a thrust fault the name we give to prominent reverse faults. The upper or overhanging wall of an inclined vein fault or other geologic structure opposed to footwall.
A n fault forms when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall a. This terminology comes from mining. Definition of hanging wall. In fault fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall.
That s the hanging wall. 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 overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.