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What is a footwall?

What is a footwall? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall).
  2. (mining) The under wall of an enclosed vein.
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The Paunglaung Fault is a top-to-the-east thrust, which folds Aptian limestone in its footwall.
In the footwall, there is density increase and porosity reduction of the argillaceous matrix approaching the fault.
Figure 6 shows outcrop Al as a representative example of the shelf to shoreface successions on the footwall of the Jalan Tutong Fault.
As a result, Triassic rocks in the hanging wall thrust onto Upper Cretaceous rocks in the footwall.
The carbonates in the footwall are strongly foliated and sheared parallel to the thrust.
They contain kilometre-scale blocks of igneous basement rocks, plucked by the rising diapir from the footwall of the fault.

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