When the hanging wall moves up in relative to the footwall it is called a fault.
Hanging wall footwall hanging wall up.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
Reverse faults form when the hanging wall moves up.
Identify the type of fault illustrated by each photo and describe the type of stress that produced it.
When the hanging wall moves down in relative to the footwall it is called a fault.
Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault.
The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
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The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
The forces creating reverse faults are compressional pushing the sides together.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Label the hanging wall block and the footwall block on each of the faults illustrated in figure 1.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
On each photo draw arrows showing the relative movement on each side of the fault.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arĂȘtes and horns.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
In a reverse fault the hanging wall right slides over the footwall left due to compressional forces.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
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 the names come about from the.