Crossword clues for footwall
footwall
Wiktionary
footwall
n. 1 (context geology English) The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall). 2 (cx mining English) The under wall of an enclosed vein.
WordNet
footwall
n. the lower wall of an inclined fault
Usage examples of "footwall".
At first it appeared only like a succession of disjointed, broken stones, lying in straggly fashion along the footwall of the drift where it widened into the stope, or upward slant on the vein.
Those who rose to their feet again were hurled forward by the press of bodies still surging up the creek, and were trapped against the footwall of the fortifications.
There were three men Kowalski had put on lashing, shoveling the loose stuff from the footwall into waiting cocopans.