It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
Normal fault footwall hanging wall.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
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Hanging wall up footwall down.
You can tell normal and reverse faults apart because at a normal fault the hanging wall has relative to the footwall.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
Hanging wall up footwall down.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
The term footwall is derived from miners finding mineral deposits where inactive faults have been filled in with mineral deposits at their feet.
The fault plane is where the action is.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
Zones of crustal extension.
Footwall where miners find mineral deposits a normal fault will have a hanging wall and a footwall.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
Normal fault geology a type of fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall and the fault surface dips steeply commonly from 50o to 90o.
Basin and range region.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
Basin and range region.
Dropped a fold is a in rock and a fault is a in rock.
Normal fault with the fault blocks on the right dropping downward myrna martin footwalls and hanging walls.
Groups of normal faults can.
Normal faults are common.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
Normal faults form in response to horizontal tensional stresses that stretch or elongate the rocks.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
Zones of crustal extension.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
