Hanging Wall Down Geology

The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface.

Hanging wall down geology.

Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes. Hanging wall and footwall. The block below is called the footwall. ø such a fault in which hanging wall has apparently moved down with respect to footwall is classified as a normal fault.

Fault plane is called the hanging wall or headwall. Rift valleys are formed by the sliding of the hanging walls downward many thousands of metres where they then become the valley floors. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. A fault in which hanging wall hw has apparently come down with respect to the footwall fw is termed as normal fault.

ø in this definition it is clearly implied that nothing can be said with certainty whether it was the hanging wall which moved down or the foot wall which moved up or both the walls moved down the hanging wall moving more than the foot wall and hence the appearance. Edges of horsts and grabens. Normal faults are common. Hanging wall up footwall down.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Basin and range region. The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall. Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.

This terminology comes from mining. Hanging wall down footwall up. They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins of tectonic plates. Zones of crustal extension.