The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Footwall hanging wall reverse fault.
Normal faults are common.
If the hanging wall rises relative to the footwall you have a reverse fault.
Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards each other thrust fault.
They are common at convergent boundaries.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
The forces creating reverse faults are compressional pushing the sides together.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
If you imagine undoing the motion of a reverse fault you will undo the compression and thus lengthen the horizontal distance between two points on either side of the fault.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
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In a reverse fault the hanging wall right slides over the footwall left due to compressional forces.
In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
A fault plane is a relatively flat surface where rocks break due to displacement.
Tensional faults are produced through tension extension or pulling apart of the crust causing the hanging wall to move down relative to the footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
Reverse faults form when the hanging wall moves up.
Reverse faults occur in areas undergoing compression squishing.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
Special type of reverse fault that is nearly horizontal angle has less than 45 degrees strike slip fault.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.