In A Reverse Fault Where Does The Hanging Wall Move

Hanging wall and footwall.

In a reverse fault where does the hanging wall move.

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. This terminology comes from mining. Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults. 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. The fault plane is where the action is. You probably noticed that the blocks that move on either side of a reverse or normal fault slide up. What type of stress is in a reverse fault.

Stress breaking an object d. Stress releasing an object. In a reverse fault the hanging wall does not move while the footwall moves down. When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults.

It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping. Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. In reverse fault which way does the footwall and hanging wall move and where are they.

The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. Stress squeezing an object b.

The hanging wall will slide upwards right.