But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up.
How to identify hanging wall and footwall.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
Then you determine the relative motion between the hanging wall and footwall.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
To determine which is which visualize yourself creating a mine in along the fault.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault.
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The fault plane is where the action is.
Dip slip movement occurs when the hanging wall moved predominantly up or down relative to the footwall.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
This terminology comes from mining.
Normal faults are common.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.
We distinguish between dip slip and strike slip hanging wall movements.
Every fault tilted from the vertical has a hanging wall and footwall.
In normal faulting the hanging wall moves downwards in relation to the footwall.
It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
The hanging wall is above the footwall.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Hanging wall movement determines the geometric classification of faulting.
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In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.
If the motion was down the fault is called a normal fault if the movement was up the.
