A normal fault is a type of dip slip fault where one side of land moves downward while the other side stays still.
Difference between hanging wall and footwall.
Its strike and its dip.
Moreover the fault surface between footwall and hanging wall dips steeply.
Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault.
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.
Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall.
A hanging wall is the overhanging rock unit on the slant that separates the two slabs while the footwall is below the slant.
The non moving land is called the footwall.
The movement along the thrust fault is the foot wall goes down and the hanging wall goes up.
This steep changes from 50 to 90 degrees.
Any fault plane can be completely described with two measurements.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall.
The names come about from the.