Block below is called the footwall.
Footwall block and hanging wall block.
The footwall is the block that is below the fault.
The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.
An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst.
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben.
The hanging wall is the fault block that is above the fault.
On each photo draw arrows showing the relative movement on each side of the fault.
Label the hanging wall block and the footwall block on each of the faults illustrated in figure 1.
Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
Identify the type of fault illustrated by each photo and describe the type of stress that produced it.
The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.
These names came from miners who excavated ore.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are called the hanging wall and footwall.
By definition the hanging wall occurs above the fault and the.