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Hanging wall   /hˈæŋɪŋ wɔl/   Listen
Hanging wall

noun
1.
The upper wall of an inclined fault.





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"Hanging wall" Quotes from Famous Books



... father told it me, Poor Old Leoni—Angels rest his soul! He was a woodman, and could fell and saw With lusty arm. You know that huge round beam Which props the hanging wall of the old Chapel. Beneath that tree, while yet it was a tree He found a baby wrapt in mosses, lined With thistle beards, and such small locks of wool As hang on brambles. Well, he brought him home, ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... in sufficient alignment to permit the continuous flow of material down past the various levels. In order that the winzes should deliver timber and filling to the most advantageous points, they should, in dipping ore-bodies, be as far as possible on the hanging wall side. ...
— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover


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