Definitions for "Footwall"
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Hanging wall, Faulting, Fault, Normal fault, Thrust fault, Reverse fault, Disconformity, Thrust , Dome , Fault line, Pipe , Graben, Lava dome, Angular unconformity, Horst, Fault zone, Slickensides, Joint, Ledge, Volcanic dome, Drift , Cross-bedding, Anticline, Slide, Volcanic neck, Rock, Spatter cone, Magma chamber, Volcano, Geosyncline, Volcanic arc, Hornito, Cinder cone volcano, Vein, Monocline, Strike-slip fault, Trenching, Plug, Cinder cone, Salt dome, Bed, Caldera, Outcrop, Syncline, Laccolith, Volcanic crater, Volcanic cone, Bedding plane, Helictite
The lower side of a horizontal or inclined rock body or fault. If the fault has dip-slip translational movement along a normal fault, the footwall block is upthrown; the footwall block is downthrown along a reverse fault.
It is the name given to the host rock of an ore deposit which is physically below the ore deposit.
the mass of rock beneath an inclined fault plane.
the underlying side of a fault, orebody or stope.
The underlying side of a fault, ore-body or stope. Gramme.
the lower wall of an inclined fault
The rock below the orebody. Forms Documentation used to record and support program and procedures.
The underlying side of a fault, an orebody, or mine workings
Opposite wall from the hanging wall; the wall on the lower side of an inclined orebody.
the mass of rock beneath a geological structure (orebody, fault, etc.)
the wall or rock usually on the underside of a Stope.
The rock on the underside of a vein or ore structure.
The lower contact of an inclined vein, or the wall rock which lies on the lower side of a dipping (inclined)vein.
The bottom or lower enclosing wall of a vein.
Of the two sides of a non-vertical fault, the side below the fault plane. It is called the footwall because where inactive faults have been "filled in" with mineral deposits and then mined, this is the side on which miners walk. (See hanging wall.)
The underlying side of a fault, ore body or mine working
the side of rock under a fault, vein, lode, etc. [AHDOS