The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
A ramp is also a type of drift.
Slope stope strike stull tailings timber vein winze.
Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass.
Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
This terminology comes from mining.
Delineation ore body is called the hanging wall and rock located below the ore body is called the footwall.
Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip.
Ore body is called the footwall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Other articles where footwall drift is discussed.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.