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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOTWALL

footwall  [ˈfʊtˌwɔːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOTWALL

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Footwall is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FOOTWALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

footwall

Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement along the fractures as a result of earth movement. Large faults within the Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes. A fault line is the surface trace of a fault, the line of intersection between the fault plane and the Earth's surface. Since faults do not usually consist of a single, clean fracture, geologists use the term fault zone when referring to the zone of complex deformation associated with the fault plane. The two sides of a non-vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. By definition, the hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below the fault. This terminology comes from mining: when working a tabular ore body, the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall hanging above him.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOTWALL


Aspinwall
ˈæspɪnˌwɔːl
breakwall
ˈbreɪkˌwɔːl
bundwall
ˈbʌndˌwɔːl
caterwaul
ˈkætəˌwɔːl
Cornwall
ˈkɔːnˌwɔːl
drywall
ˈdraɪˌwɔːl
floodwall
ˈflʌdˌwɔːl
gadwall
ˈɡædˌwɔːl
hickwall
ˈhɪkˌwɔːl
Kirkwall
ˈkɜːkˌwɔːl
Lindwall
ˈlɪndˌwɔːl
longwall
ˈlɒŋˌwɔːl
multiwall
ˈmʌltɪˌwɔːl
Rosewall
ˈrəʊzˌwɔːl
shieldwall
ˈʃiːldˌwɔːl
sidewall
ˈsaɪdˌwɔːl
stonewall
ˌstəʊnˈwɔːl
wall
wɔːl
whitewall
ˈwaɪtˌwɔːl
witwall
ˈwɪtˌwɔːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOTWALL

footslog
footslogged
footslogger
footslogging
footsore
footsoreness
footstalk
footstall
footstep
footsteps editor
footstock
footstone
footstool
footway
footwear
footweary
footwell
footwork
footworn
footy

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOTWALL

brick wall
cavity wall
cell wall
climbing wall
drive to the wall
firewall
fly on the wall
go to the wall
go up the wall
hole in the wall
inwall
off-the-wall
party wall
paywall
perimeter wall
retaining wall
setwall
wall to wall
wall-to-wall
writing on the wall

Synonyms and antonyms of footwall in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «footwall» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOTWALL

Find out the translation of footwall to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

下盘
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

footwall
570 millions of speakers

English

footwall
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

footwall
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

footwall
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лежачий бок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lapa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

footwall
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éponte inférieure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Footwall
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Liegenden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

下盤
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

footwall의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Footwall
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chân tường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

footwall
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Footwall
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taban taşı,
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

footwall
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

footwall
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лежачий бік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

footwall
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

footwall
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

footwall
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

footwall
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOTWALL»

Discover the use of footwall in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to footwall and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Geology of the Chukar Footwall Mine, Maggie Creek District, ...
These rocks were probably deformed during the Antler orogeny, generating the Chukar anticline, a northeast trending open structure with a subhorizontal plunge.
Juan Antonio Ruiz Parraga, 2007
2
Geology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of Transitional ...
The Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with the 1.8 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex occur within 3 distinct environments: within quartz diorite offset dykes associated with the SIC, within embayments along footwall contacts of the SIC, and within ...
Steven Kelvey Gregory, 2006
3
Underground Mining Methods: Engineering Fundamentals and ...
99 6 April 2000 11 April 2000 Ore drive 13655 N] Footwall drive (3475 N) Footwall drive (2775 N) Footwall drive (3790 N) Footwall drive (3805 N) Footwall dnve (3820 N) Footwall drive (3845 N) Footwall drive (3775 N) Footwall drive ( 3840 N) ...
William A. Hustrulid, W. A. Hustrulid, 2001
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Dynamics of the Norwegian Margin
Estimates of footwall uplift and hangingwall subsidence of the Snorre-H Fault Block, along an E—W transect near well 34/7-24S In order to accommodate a decreasing fault-block tilt from the hangingwall across the footwall, initial footwall uplift ...
Arvid Nøttvedt, 2000
5
Geology of the Sheeprock Thrust Sheet, Central Utah - New ...
Equal-area plots of poles to bedding observed in the footwall rocks of the western limb of the folded Sheeprock thrust. (b) Bedding dips about 25 m away from the thrust are westerly. (c) About 1.25 km from the fault, bedding dips change to ...
Malay Mukul, Gautam Mitra, 1998
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Thrustbelts: Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes and ...
... t e m p e r a t u r e ( C ) hanging wall footwall 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 time (Ma) t e m p e r a t u r e ( C ) hanging wall footwall T1-E-xx-si-sh-40 -23 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 time (Ma) hanging wall footwall T1-E-xx-si-sh-60-23 ...
Michal Nemcok, Steven Schamel, Rod Gayer, 2009
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Structural Analysis and Synthesis: A Laboratory Course in ...
They do not contain truncated strata, either in the hanging wall or in the footwall. Displacement along the thrust fault may result in a hanging-wall flat coming to lie either parallel to bedding in the foot— wall or at an angle to bedding in the ...
Stehen M. Rowland, Ernest M. Duebendorfer, Ilsa M. Schiefelbein, 2009
8
New Frontiers in Engineering Geology and the Environment: ...
the range of over 12 km in the footwall. Therefore, It can be concluded that '' Hanging wall and footwall effects'' are quite obvious in this study area. From Fig.5 , the geo-hazard distribution figure of Magong-Hongguang study area, we can get a ...
Yu Huang, Faquan Wu, Zhenming Shi, 2012
9
Sediment Hosted Lead-Zinc Sulphide Deposits
Note that the massive ores of the Vent Complex occupy the stratigraphic interval from the footwall to the "I" Graded Bed (after Hamilton et al., 1982). Fig. 1 5 Upper part of the Footwall Bedded Sequence. Approximate Thickness Range (meters) ...
‎2004
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Stratigraphic separation on the Hawley Creek thrust fault of the Beaverhead Mountains, and that on the imbricate thrust faults in the McDevitt Creek sheet ( footwall) mapped by K.V. Evans, Falma Moye, and R.F. Hardyman (unpub. mapping, ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOTWALL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term footwall is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mining News: News Nuggets: Redstar extends Shumagin, finds new …
... project in Southwest Alaska continues to cut high-grade gold in the Shumagin vein as well as tapping a second older system in the footwall. «Petroleum News, Jul 15»
2
American CuMo Mining Corporation: Updated Resource Estimate …
... grading downward into the next: a weathered near-surface zone, a Cu-Ag zone, a Cu-Mo zone, a Mo zone, and finally a footwall zone (MSI). «Stockhouse, Jul 15»
3
Australia- Red Mountain Mining to talk at Proactive's Sydney …
Recent work resulted in the discovery of a new high grade footwall lode at SWB. Adding interest there are more trenching results to flow ... «MENAFN.COM, Jul 15»
4
St George Mining finds visible copper, zinc sulphides in drill core
This is a site where large volumes and high flow rates of very hot komatiite magma can assimilate the sulphur in the sulphide-rich footwall ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Jul 15»
5
Red Pine Exploration Announces Private Placement to Advance the …
The funds will be used to define additional gold mineralization in both the hanging wall and footwall secondary structures of the Surluga ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
6
Redstar Gold Drilling Expands High-Grade Gold Mineralization 100 …
Redstar Gold Drilling Expands High-Grade Gold Mineralization 100 Metres Along Strike; Discovers Ginguro-style Breccia Vein in Footwall at ... «Baystreet.ca, Jul 15»
7
Avalon Minerals discovers Viscaria's copper grades increase at depth
... 186 is the first hole to be drilled by Avalon from the south-east towards the north-west, and has provided a complete view of the interpreted footwall to D Zone. «Proactive Investors USA & Canada, Jul 15»
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Today's Market View Including IMIC plc, Vast Resources, North …
VDD 186 is the first hole in the D Zone which has been drilled from the SE to the NW and provides a better view of the interpreted footwall zone ... «Proactive Investors UK, Jul 15»
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Avalon Minerals (ASX:AVI) is focused on Sweden, with the country …
... to be drilled by Avalon from the south-east towards the north-west, and has provided a complete view of the interpreted footwall to D Zone. «Proactive Investors Chinese, Jul 15»
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Eagle Plains Commences 2015 Exploration in Seabee Gold Mine …
Gold mineralization was noted up to 4 m into the hanging wall and footwall of the shear. Technical aspects of this news release were prepared ... «MarketWatch, Jun 15»

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