The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.
Normal fault hanging wall and footwall.
The strike is the direction of the fault.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall.
Generally speaking the hanging wall and footwall of a fault are in contact with each other.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall.
Its strike and its dip.
Normal faults are common.
In some kinds of mineral deposits there is ore directly in the fault so.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
Normal faults form in response to horizontal tensional stresses that stretch or elongate the rocks.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Block position under the hanging wall.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards each other thrust fault.
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.
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements.
Also miners will mine ore not hanging walls or footwalls.
Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst.
True in a reverse fault the hanging wall block moves up relative to the footwall block.
In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.