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fault are
known as the
hanging wall and
footwall. The
hanging wall
occurs above the
fault plane and the
footwall occurs below it. This
terminology comes...
- May 18, 2020 an
earthquake of
approximate 4.9 Mw was
triggered in the
footwall of the mine. The
earthquake was not
natural but
induced by the
mining activity...
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stockworks of
mineralization in the
footwall (the non-igneous
rocks underlying the SIC). Pre-existing
weaknesses in the
footwall play a
crucial role in the distribution...
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stratigraphic succession.
Footwall rocks, ****ociated with the
impact event,
consist of
Sudbury Breccia (pseudotachylite),
footwall breccia,
radial and concentric...
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where the
displacement of the
hanging wall is downward,
while that of the
footwall is upward. The
faults typically dip
toward the
center of the
graben from...
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called hanging wall,
while the wall
partially below the
fault is
called the
footwall.
Normal faults, a type of dip-slip faults,
occur when the
hanging wall...
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unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade
metamorphic footwalls that are
called metamorphic core complexes. They are
thought to have formed...
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continued displacement on the thrust,
higher stresses are
developed in the
footwall of the ramp due to the bend on the fault. This may
cause renewed propagation...
- with the
footwall rocks,
indicating mineralisation was
developed in an inter-eruptive pause; it may be
volcanic rock
dissimilar to the
footwall volcanics...
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Sedimentary layers have
different geometry and
thickness across the fault. The
footwall –
landward of the
fault plane – has
undisturbed sedimentary strata that...
