The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
Normal fault footwall hanging wall.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Basin and range region.
It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
Normal fault with the fault blocks on the right dropping downward myrna martin footwalls and hanging walls.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
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.
Normal faults are common.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
The fault plane is where the action is.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
You can tell normal and reverse faults apart because at a normal fault the hanging wall has relative to the footwall.
Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.
Edges of horsts and grabens.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
Basin and range region.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
True in a reverse fault the hanging wall block moves up relative to the footwall block.
Footwall where miners find mineral deposits a normal fault will have a hanging wall and a footwall.
Zones of crustal extension.
Zones of crustal extension.
The term footwall is derived from miners finding mineral deposits where inactive faults have been filled in with mineral deposits at their feet.
Groups of normal faults can.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
Normal fault geology a type of fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall and the fault surface dips steeply commonly from 50o to 90o.
Hanging wall up footwall down.
Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.
Dropped a fold is a in rock and a fault is a in rock.
Hanging wall down footwall up.
