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Uplifted and incised fluvial terraces are preserved in footwall valleys, including those of the Ladopotamos and Vouraikos rivers.
In general, basement rocks are exposed in the footwall block, whereas Caledonian nappe units are preserved in the hanging wall.
They contain kilometre-scale blocks of igneous basement rocks, plucked by the rising diapir from the footwall of 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.
Although greatly attenuated in shear zones, layers may still be continuous from footwall to hanging wall.
The Paunglaung Fault is a top-to-the-east thrust, which folds Aptian limestone in its footwall.
A smaller and lower intensity damage zone also occurs within the footwall of the thrust.
In the footwall, there is density increase and porosity reduction of the argillaceous matrix approaching the fault.
The former courses of the south-directed drainage became wind gaps in the immediate footwall of the South Alkyonides Fault.
To the south of each of the basins 1-3, wind gaps are preserved in the footwall of the fault.
At several localities a west-verging footwall syncline has developed as a consequence of westward transport on the overlying thrust sheet.
As much as 1.3 km of sediment were eroded on the footwall blocks of normal faults at that time.
The carbonates in the footwall are strongly foliated and sheared parallel to the thrust.
As a result, Triassic rocks in the hanging wall thrust onto Upper Cretaceous rocks in the footwall.
Corroded danburite up to 8 cm in length was abundant around footwall portions of the pocket.
The hole intersected Pipe and strong chlorite alteration in the footwall stratigraphy to the Key Tuffite, which was itself missing.
Second, a change in orientation and polarity of the stretching lineation and shear bands is observed in the footwall towards the Nesna shear zone.
The new owners gave an extended lease of life to the mine by extracting ore from the footwall zone of the old stopes that were thought to have been mined out.
The correlation is supported by an analysis of stratal expansion, throw development, and data on the sandstone ratio of corresponding footwall and hanging-wall intervals.
Several high grade areas were intersected including a new zone discovered in the volcanic rocks in the footwall to the deposit.
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But the hardest rock of the hanging or footwall, however, is seldom as hard as the harder class of ore.
To these timbers are fixed small timbers along the footwall, to which are fastened the lagging and ladders.
Stringers are given the same characteristics as veins, but divided into hanging, footwall, and other varieties.
The total area of ore measured on the footwall was 785 acres.
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