You can tell normal and reverse faults apart because at a normal fault the hanging wall has relative to the footwall.
Normal fault footwall hanging wall.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
Zones of crustal extension.
It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
Hanging wall up footwall down.
Basin and range region.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
Groups of normal faults can.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.
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.
Zones of crustal extension.
The term footwall is derived from miners finding mineral deposits where inactive faults have been filled in with mineral deposits at their feet.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Normal faults are common.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
Basin and range region.
If you imagine undoing the motion of a normal fault you will undo the stretching and thus shorten the horizontal distance between two points on either side of the fault.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Footwall where miners find mineral deposits a normal fault will have a hanging wall and a footwall.
Hanging wall up footwall down.
Dropped a fold is a in rock and a fault is a in rock.
Normal faults form in response to horizontal tensional stresses that stretch or elongate the rocks.