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Definition of Hanging wall
1. Noun. The upper wall of an inclined fault.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hanging Wall
Literary usage of Hanging wall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"6 level of the Volunteer a cross-cut almost on the boundary between the Ц mines
has gone in over 70 feet a sort of hanging-wall is met with in this at 37 ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1896)
"This mass forms with the hanging-wall a trough, pitching east. The intersection
of the foot-wall with the great northern sheet at the east end forms a ..."
3. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"The granite blocks become smaller and smaller as the ore body is approached,
until, finally, more massive ore is found. Mineralization of Hanging=Wall and ..."
4. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"A normal fault is one in which the hanging wall has apparently slipped down with
respect to the foot wall (Fig. 139, A), Fia. 147.—A, branching fault; B, ..."
5. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Worki: is chiefly of 6-in round timber; sloping floors, of round or split lagging,
10.5 For steep dip and strong hanging wall, shrinkage slopes (Art 68-70) ..."
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