Fault The Hanging Wall Moves Down

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

Fault the hanging wall moves down.

Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called. Other articles where normal fault is discussed. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards.

The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. This terminology comes from mining. The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.

Compare the image to the right with the normal fault above. Block position under the hanging wall. Hanging wall and footwall. They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.

But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall. Formed by tensional stress rocks are stretched away from each other reverse fault. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens. Block position over the fault. Faults that move the way you would expect gravity to move them normally are called normal faults.