Faults are subdivided according to the movement of the two blocks.
Normal fault hanging wall movement.
The forces creating reverse faults are compressional pushing the sides together.
This is literally the reverse of a normal fault.
They are identified by the relative movement of the hanging wall and foot wall.
Dip slip movement occurs when the hanging wall moved predominantly up or down relative to the footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Hanging wall movement determines the geometric classification of faulting.
They are caused by extensional tectonics.
In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Reverse faults form when the hanging wall moves up.
In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the foot wall.
An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst.
Tensional faults are produced through tension extension or pulling apart of the crust causing the hanging wall to move down relative to the footwall.
Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip and a very large total displacement are called overthrusts or detachments.
Reverse dip slip faults result from horizontal compressional forces caused by a shortening or contraction of earth s crust.
Faults are classified according to the direction of relative movement along the fault.
They are common at convergent boundaries.
The terms hanging wall and foot wall refer to the relative position of the plates after movement.
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben.
Faults showing vertical movement include tensional normal and compressional reverse faults.
A dip slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block.
Together normal and reverse faults are called dip slip faults because the movement on them occurs along the dip direction either down or up respectively.
We distinguish between dip slip and strike slip hanging wall movements.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
If the motion was down the fault is called a normal fault if the movement was up the.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
Economic minerals often grow along faults and these terms come from where a miner would stand and where they would hang their lantern.
These are often found in intensely deformed.
Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
In this type of fault the hanging wall and footwall are pushed together and the hanging wall moves upward along the fault relative to the footwall.
Normal faults are common.
There are three or four primary fault types.
Fault types three main types of faults.
Normal faults and reverse faults are dip slip faults they experience vertical movement in line with the dip of the fault.
