Formed by tensional stress rocks are stretched away from each other reverse fault.
Fault the hanging wall moves down.
Compare the image to the right with the normal fault above.
Hanging wall and footwall.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
A n fault forms when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall a.
Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called.
If we hold the foot wall stationary gravity will normally want to pull the hanging wall down right.
Normal faults are common.
Block position under the hanging wall.
Faults that move the way you would expect gravity to move them normally are called normal faults.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
This terminology comes from mining.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.