Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip and a very large total displacement are called overthrusts or detachments.
Fault types and hanging wall.
Where the crust is being pulled apart normal faulting occurs in which the overlying hanging wall block moves down with respect to the lower foot wall block.
Where the crust is being compressed reverse faulting occurs in which the hanging wall block moves up and over the footwall block reverse slip on a gently inclined plane is referred to as thrust faulting.
The fault plane in a reverse fault is also nearly vertical but the hanging wall pushes up and the footwall pushes down.
It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
Thrust faults are reverse faults that dip less than 45.
When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults.
It is the horizontal displacement between the 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.
These are often found in intensely deformed.
Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
The hanging wall will slide upwards right.
Normal faults are common.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.
A dip slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below.
This terminology comes from mining.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Other articles where normal fault is discussed.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall reverse fault.
Reverse dip slip faults result from horizontal compressional forces caused by a shortening or contraction of earth s crust.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
The hanging wall moves up and over the footwall.
Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
The fault plane is where the action is.
You probably noticed that the blocks that move on either side of a reverse or normal fault slide up.
This type of faulting occurs in response to extension.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Depending upon the inclination of the fault number of types of faults are recognized.
This sort of fault forms where a plate is being compressed.
Usgs in these faults which are also caused by compression the rock of the hanging wall is actually pushed up.
