hanging wall
footwall
dip
rock face
normal fault
transform fault
gravity fault
common fault
geoboundary
reverse fault
inclined fault
thrust fault
overthrust fault
intrusive
strike-slip fault
overthrust
wall rock
crevice
pitch-faced
scarp
syncline
krantz
surbed
roof
borderstone
blind thrust fault
wayboard
geologic joint
plinth
rimrock
scarcement
orbicule
fault scarp
toe wall
rift
allostratigraphy
dyke
fault line
overbrow
chimney
corrugation
shelve
trap rock
rock shelter
footing
outthrust
surface
morphology
slide
tea table
massif
imbrication
fracture
rock formation
onlap
cliff
sill
leptoclase
conchoid
downthrow
diapir
faulting
fold
slickenside
crag
cranny
folding
oversite
sny
back board
boulderstone
C horizon
pseudotachylite
clifflet
ravinement
through
attenuate
heel
toe-crushing
markstone
rockbolt
bajada
C-horizon
talus
crop
nappe
bund
cliffside
footboard
transcurrent

English words for 'The section of rock that extends above a diagonal fault line (the corresponding lower section being the footwall).'

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