hanging wall in a sentence

Examples

1. Seismic line showing sedimentary layers, footwall and hanging wall of a growth fault : Modified after Bjerkvik, 2012
2. It was located immediately above the 800 level, about 15 feet into the ore from the hanging wall.
3. A number of high-angle normal faults accommodating tilting and extension within the hanging wall are easily visible as well.
4. The vein carries a black gouge on the foot-wall and several feet of altered granodiorite on the hanging wall.
5. A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
6. The new added layers are thicker within the footwall than within the hanging wall ( fig . 2 ).
7. Most of the sediment will enter the half-graben down the unfaulted hanging wall side ( " e . g ."
8. Subduction occurs along a hanging wall, or overriding slab is thrust over an overridden slab, also called the subducting slab.
9. The clearly defined fault was exposed in the trench and emerged as a band of coarse gravels lining the hanging wall.
10. Graben are produced from parallel normal faults, where the displacement of the hanging wall is downward, while that of the footwall is upward.