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