Footwall And Hanging Wall Normal Fault
The hanging wall is to the left of the fault and the footwall to the right.
Footwall and hanging wall normal fault. Normal fault s are common. 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. In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall. 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.
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. Normal fault geology. An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst.
Normal fault a type of fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall and the fault surface dips steeply commonly from 50 o to 90 o. A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben. Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching. They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.