Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards each other thrust fault.
Footwall hanging wall reverse fault.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
If the hanging wall rises relative to the footwall you have a reverse fault.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
If you imagine undoing the motion of a reverse fault you will undo the compression and thus lengthen the horizontal distance between two points on either side of the fault.
In a reverse fault the hanging wall right slides over the footwall left due to compressional forces.
Normal faults are common.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
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Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
Special type of reverse fault that is nearly horizontal angle has less than 45 degrees strike slip fault.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
Reverse faults occur in areas undergoing compression squishing.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
A fault plane is a relatively flat surface where rocks break due to displacement.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
The forces creating reverse faults are compressional pushing the sides together.
Faults showing vertical movement include tensional normal and compressional reverse faults.
Reverse faults form when the hanging wall moves up.
Tensional faults are produced through tension extension or pulling apart of the crust causing the hanging wall to move down relative to the footwall.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.