Hanging Wall Up Footwall Down

Boundaries of metamorphic core complexes.

Hanging wall up footwall down.

It is caused by compression. Zones of crustal extension. A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben. Then there is also a reverse fault which happens at a convergent boundary.

Movement is left and right horizontal example. Hanging wall down footwall up. 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. Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.

Low angle normal fault footwall gneiss hanging wall shallow crust rocks. In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall. Then there is also a. Edges of horsts and grabens.

Combination of dip and strike slip focus and epicenter focus. The hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall. In a reverse fault the hanging wall moves up and the footwall moves down. Directly above earth s.

But that is when the foot wall moves down the hanging wall moves up. San andreas fault 3. Hanging wall down footwall up. The motion of the crustal blocks is referred to as strike slip.

Zones of crustal extension. Movement is up and down vertical normal. Footwall left side is at the bottom 2. In this fault the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.

Hanging wall up footwall down. Type of regional stress. Hanging wall right side is at the bottom reverse. In a strike slip fault they slide past each other the foot wall and hanging wall are not there because it has.

An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst. Where the displacement of the plates takes place aka hypocenter epicenter. The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. 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.

The footwall moves down relative to the hanging wall.