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Definition of Footwalls
1. footwall [n] - See also: footwall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footwalls
Literary usage of Footwalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Hanging and footwalls are very strong tough gneiss, the I fairly smooth, the
latter warped by г series of ..."
2. Electrical Review (1891)
"It was then put into the mine, where it has been used steadily during the past
12 months for exploring the hanging and footwalls of the mineral deposit, ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1908)
"... value is said to be that which is most marked by lamination, and as a rule
the hanging walls of tin- reefs are much better denned than the footwalls. ..."
4. The Iron Ores of Lake Superior: Containing Some Facts of Interest Relating by Crowell & Murray (1917)
"... ore concentration was influenced by the circulation of water controlled in
troughs produced by intersecting dikes and footwalls, folds, fracture planes, ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1907)
"[38101- The footwalls, or floors, of the quartz bodies present a rolling character,
the angle of inclination of which rarely reaches, and never exceeds, ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1916)
"In the plan they have been shown at about the 100ft. level and the calculated
outcrop of their footwalls alone shown at the surface. ..."
7. Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America by Arthur Lakes (1896)
"The hanging wall of the vein continues into the dyke, but with porphyry hanging
and footwalls, until a depth of 330 feet, where it enters the upper contact ..."
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