On each photo draw arrows showing the relative movement on each side of the fault.
Hanging wall footwall hanging wall up.
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
Identify the type of fault illustrated by each photo and describe the type of stress that produced it.
An arcuate cliff called the headwall.
Footwall synonyms footwall pronunciation footwall translation english dictionary definition of footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
These usually occur when tectonic forces cause tension that pulls rocks apart.
This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.
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.
The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common.
Other articles where hanging wall is discussed.
Label the hanging wall block and the footwall block on each of the faults illustrated in figure 1.
More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault.
When the hanging wall moves up in relative to the footwall it is called a fault.
Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns.
Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust.
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In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.
In a reverse fault the hanging wall right slides over the footwall left due to compressional forces.
The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45.
