A ramp is also a type of drift.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip.
Other articles where footwall drift is discussed.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
This terminology comes from mining.
Other articles where footwall is discussed.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
Delineation ore body is called the hanging wall and rock located below the ore body is called the footwall.
Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass.
Ore body is called the footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.