Hanging Wall Up Footwall Down

Edges of horsts and grabens.

Hanging wall up footwall down.

Note that a vertical fault with one block moving up is neither a reverse or normal fault as there is no hanging wall or footwall. As rehemat explained in the reverse fault the hanging wall will move up with respect to the footwall and in a normal fault the hanging wall will move down with respect to the footwall. Zones of crustal extension. Combination of dip and strike slip focus and epicenter focus.

The hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall. It is caused by compression. Then there is also a reverse fault which happens at a convergent boundary. Basin and range region.

Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults. Edges of horsts and grabens. Where the displacement of the plates takes place aka hypocenter epicenter. In this fault the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.

A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben. Type of regional stress. In a reverse fault the hanging wall moves up and the footwall moves down. Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks.

The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. Movement is up and down vertical normal. Hanging wall right side is at the bottom reverse. Hanging wall up footwall down.

Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes. An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst. Footwall left side is at the bottom 2. Then there is also a.

But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has. The footwall moves down relative to the hanging wall. In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.

Zones of crustal extension. Hanging wall down footwall up. San andreas fault 3. Directly above earth s.

The crust experiences extension.