What is the true dip of the bedding? a prospector has dug two small trenches, which are not parallel to one another, at the base of tabor ridge in order to expose a thick vein of gold-bearing bull quartz. n the walls of the pits are vertical. in the first pit the apparent dip of the vein is 分) 240,n17°e, and in the second pit the apparent dip of the vein is 560,n39ow. what is the orientation of a shaft that lies in the plane of the vein and parallel to the true dip of the vein? 8.