The Hanging Wall Slides Up And Over The Footwall

In a reverse fault the hanging wall right slides over the footwall left due to compressional forces.

The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall.

The names come about from the. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. The hanging wall slips downward below the footwall is a. This terminology comes from mining.

The hanging wall will slide upwards right. The forces creating reverse faults are compressional pushing the sides together. Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults. The hanging wall moves up and over the footwall.

The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall is a. Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. There is little up or down motion is a. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

In a non vertical fault where the fault plane dips the footwall is the section of the fault that lies under the fault while the hanging wall lies over the fault. A strike slip fault that forms the. Reverse faults form when the hanging wall moves up. Thrust faults are reverse faults that dip less than 45.

Mike dunning dorling kindersle getty images. Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip and a very large total displacement are called overthrusts or detachments. A strike slip fault or a latteral fault moves in opposition of each other. There are three different types of faults normal faults reverse faults and strike slip faults.

When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults.