Fault Line Hanging Wall

A dip slip fault in which the upper block above the fault plane moves up and over the.

Fault line hanging wall.

Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip and a very large total displacement are called overthrusts or detachments. Hanging wall and footwall. It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping. The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.

The upper block or in other words the block above the fault plane is called hanging wall. The block below is called the footwall. Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. We distinguish between dip slip and strike slip hanging wall movements. Usgs in these faults which are also caused by compression the rock of the hanging wall is actually pushed up. This type of faulting occurs in response to extension.

Reverse dip slip faults result from horizontal compressional forces caused by a shortening or contraction of earth s crust. Note the small normal faults that displace the sandstone in the hanging wall and bend sole into the flatlying detachment the sandstone layers inbetween these small normal faults have rotated clockwise in this view as this faulting occurred. The fault plane in a reverse fault is also nearly vertical but the hanging wall pushes up and the footwall pushes down. A dip slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below.

Occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall reverse fault. Dip slip movement occurs when the hanging wall moved predominantly up or down relative to the footwall. Fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall. These are often found in intensely deformed.

This terminology comes from mining. A thrust fault moves the same way as a reverse fault but at an angle of 45 degrees or less source. The block below the fault plane or in other words beneath the fault plane is called the footwall. Hanging wall and footwall.

Thrust faults are reverse faults that dip less than 45. This sort of fault forms where a plate is being compressed. The hanging wall moves up and over the footwall. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. Hanging wall movement determines the geometric classification of faulting. Offset dispersal splays relay or tri shear termination. The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.