Normal-section azimuth

Normal-section azimuth is like drawing a map of something you see, but instead of drawing it the way you see it, you turn it around so you can see it from above. It's kinda like spinning a toy top around and looking at it from different angles.

But when we talk about normal-section azimuth, we don't just look at the top view, we also look at how it's positioned compared to north. North is like the direction that a compass points.

So, let's say we want to draw a map of a mountain. We start by looking at it from the side, and then we turn it around so we can see it from above. Then we imagine that north is at the top of the map, and we draw the mountain in the right place.

But because the mountain isn't exactly north-south or east-west, we need to figure out how it's turned. We do this by measuring the angle between the mountain and north. This angle is called the normal-section azimuth.

So, normal-section azimuth is a way of measuring how something is positioned compared to north when we draw a map of it from above.