It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
In a reverse fault where does the hanging wall move.
In a reverse fault the hanging wall moves up and the footwall moves down.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults.
Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
Hanging wall and footwall.
You probably noticed that the blocks that move on either side of a reverse or normal fault slide up.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Stress pulling an object c.
In a reverse fault the hanging wall does not move while the footwall moves down.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
What type of stress is in a reverse fault.
In reverse fault which way does the footwall and hanging wall move and where are they.
Stress squeezing an object b.
This terminology comes from mining.
The hanging wall will slide upwards right.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.
The footwall is located underneath the hanging wall and the footwall is sliding down while the hanging wall is moving upwards.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
The fault plane is where the action is.