How to pronounce “hanging wall”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (geology) The section of rock that extends above a diagonal fault line (the corresponding lower section being the footwall).
• (mining) the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

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Similar Sounds

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