Formed by compressional stress rocks are pushed towards.
Fault the hanging wall moves down.
This terminology comes from mining.
Faults that move the way you would expect gravity to move them normally are called normal faults.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
Normal fractures in rock with no offset where there has been no motion are called.
Normal faults are common.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.
The hanging wall slides 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.
Formed by tensional stress rocks are stretched away from each other reverse fault.
If we hold the foot wall stationary gravity will normally want to pull the hanging wall down right.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
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.
Block position over the fault.
Hanging wall and footwall.
Block position under the hanging wall.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
Compare the image to the right with the normal fault above.