hanging wall in English

noun
1
the block of rock that lies above an inclined fault or an ore body.
As for the mesoscale normal faults inside the ICruibeke Fault Zone, they cannot be considered as classical brittle planar normal fault planes downwarping a hanging wall relative to a footwall along a single discrete plane.

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1. Subducting normal fault blocks in the oceanic crust control thrust ramps, and hanging wall anticlines form above the ramps.

2. Clast compositions of the White Lake and Skaha formations record alluvial and tectonic stripping that locally eliminated hanging-wall blocks.

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5. 30 The hydrocarbon generating potential of source rock is weaker in the hanging wall and the heavier relatively in the lower plat of upper Paleozoic in the west margin belt.

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