Fault The Hanging Wall Moves Down

Hanging wall and footwall.

Fault the hanging wall moves down.

Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens. Normal faults are common. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called.

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Block position over the fault. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.

Compare the image to the right with the normal fault above. A n fault forms when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall a. They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins. Other articles where normal fault is discussed.

Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards. The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall. This terminology comes from mining. Faults that move the way you would expect gravity to move them normally are called normal faults.

In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. If we hold the foot wall stationary gravity will normally want to pull the hanging wall down right. The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.