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Hanging wall is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HANGING WALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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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 BEGIN LIKE HANGING WALL

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WORDS THAT END LIKE HANGING WALL

brick wall
cavity wall
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curtain wall
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garden wall
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Synonyms and antonyms of hanging wall in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hanging wall» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANGING WALL

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The translations of hanging wall from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hanging wall» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

挂墙上
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colgar en la pared
570 millions of speakers

English

hanging wall
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फांसी दीवार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجدار شنقا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

висячего
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

decoração de parede
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝুলন্ত প্রাচীর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éponte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dinding gantung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hang
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

壁掛け
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

매달려 벽
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hanging wall
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

treo tường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுவர் தொங்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फाशीची भिंत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Asılı duvar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

appeso a parete
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wiszące ściana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

висячого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agățat pe perete
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρέμονται τοίχο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hang muur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hängande vägg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hengende veggen
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANGING WALL»

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Beyond the Hanging Wall
The sudden change of air pressure when the sea rushed in caused several sections of the hanging wall to collapse. A few broken bones, 'tis all, but the cursed men mutter and refuse to move until they're fixed.” Separate? Garth looked at his ...
Sara Douglass, 2006
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The Mediterranean Basins: Tertiary Extension Within the ...
Interaction between faulting, drainage and sedimentation in extensional hanging- wall syncline basins: example of the Oligocene Matelles basin (Gulf of Lion rifted margin, SE France) A. BENEDICTO1, M. SEGURET1 & P. LABAUME2 1Institut ...
Bernard Durand, Geological Society of London, 1999
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Structural Analysis and Synthesis: A Laboratory Course in ...
15 .1b, and be sure you understand why HWRa is identifiable as the portion of the hanging wall that lay adjacent to FWRa prior to faulting. Flats are the panels between ramp panels. They do not contain truncated strata, either in the hanging  ...
Stehen M. Rowland, Ernest M. Duebendorfer, Ilsa M. Schiefelbein, 2009
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Thrustbelts: Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes and ...
... 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 time (Ma) hanging wall footwall 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 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 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 ...
Michal Nemcok, Steven Schamel, Rod Gayer, 2009
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Geology of the Sheeprock Thrust Sheet, Central Utah - New ...
Otts Canyon quartzites constitute the hanging wall of both thrusts (figures 2, 3, and 4). This indicates that the stratigraphic separations on the Pole Canyon and the Sheeprock thrusts, at locations A and B (on figure 3) near the Indian Springs ...
Malay Mukul, Gautam Mitra, 1998
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New Insights Into Structural Interpretation and Modelling
Hanging wall accommodation styles in ramp- flat thrust models G. MULUGETA1 & D. SOKOUTIS2 [Hans Ramberg Tectonic Laboratory, Institute of Geology, University of Uppsala, Box 555, S-75I 22 Uppsala, Sweden 2The Netherlands Center ...
D. A. Nieuwland, 2003
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Paleoseismic Investigation and Long-term Slip History of the ...
Geochemical data (Schramm, 1994; this study appendix D) show that the basalts on the footwall and hanging wall are correlative. The flows at this site exhibit reverse magnetization and are magnetically indistinguishable from other basalt ...
William R. Lund, Michael J. Hozik, Stanley C. Hatfield, 2007
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
These prior models inferred that Cambrian hanging-wall strata rest on progressively younger footwall strata toward the southeast because the Spotted Range-Specter Range thrust cut upsection through a footwall ramp in the direction of ...
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Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-scale Processes
In sand models, a few, relatively major, secondary antithetic normal faults accommodate most hanging wall deformation. Pregrowth layers, although faulted , remain flat. The effective shear direction parallels the antithetic normal faults, and the ...
Susanne Janita Henriët Buiter, Guido Schreurs, Geological Society of London, 2006
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Directory of Northridge Earthquake Research
One of the reasons for the large high frequency ground motions recorded during the Northridge earthquake is the location of many of these sites on the hanging wall of the fault (the side of the fault that overlies the rupture surface). For the ...
Brian Cowan, Michael Mahoney, Stephen A. Mahin, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANGING WALL»

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Townville News
... 3) self-propelled lawn mower provided by Greenhill Farm Equipment; 4) cherry hope chest provided by Homewood Furniture; 5) hanging wall ... «Titusville Herald, Jul 15»
2
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 ... «Wawa-news.com, Jul 15»
3
CBay Completes Initial NI43-101 Resource Estimate on Devlin …
... resource estimate encompasses a primary vein (“Lower Zone”) and three smaller accessory veins located on the hanging wall of the primary ... «Satellite PR News, Jun 15»
4
Red Pine Secures Funding to Satisfy Conditions for 30% Interest in …
The Ronacher McKenzie-SRK report states: "Further, there is gold mineralization in the hanging wall and footwall secondary structures, but its ... «MarketWatch, Jun 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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Americana is hotter than a firework, and there's no time like the …
Or consider Kustomwood's Reclaimed Pallet American Flag Hanging Wall Art ($150 at etsy.com/shop/kustomwood). Each piece is one of a kind ... «The Seattle Times, Jun 15»
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Ceramic studio hosts 'Day in Clay' open house
The adults will be taught how to make a hanging wall planter and the kids will make "secret keeper pockets," Cleckler said. "The children will be ... «Auburn Villager, Jun 15»
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Veteran ceramicists join YS Pottery
Wolters, however, takes a different approach to ceramics, focusing more on flatwork, particularly hanging wall plaques that are inscribed with ... «Yellow Springs News, Jun 15»
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Continental Gold Announces an Updated Mineral Resource …
Informing samples were selected separately for the hanging wall and footwall for each vein. Estimation parameters were the same as for that ... «Digital Journal, Jun 15»
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HLM Drills In-Fill on the PAK Lithium Project Intersecting 2.01% Li2O …
... (footwall) boundary with the metasediments is consistent and predictable while the SSW (hanging wall) contact with the granite is somewhat ... «MarketWatch, Jun 15»

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