A normal fault is a product of tension so the hanging wall of the fault slides down the footwall.
If you look into the fault plane, and it slopes from lower left to top right, the (over)hanging wall is on the left and you will see its younger rocks have slid down to meet older ones on the footwall opposite.
A normal fault occurs when rock is pulled apart, causing one block of rock to move downward relative to the other. This displacement is due to tensional forces acting on the earth's crust, causing the hanging wall to drop relative to the footwall along the fault plane.
a normal fault
Normal Faultin a normal fault, the hanging wall slips down relative to the footwallfootwall- the rock that lies belowhanging wall- the block of rock that lies abovenormal fault- tension in Earth's crust pulls rock apart which causes normal fault2. The Land Between Two Normal Faults Moves Upward To Form What?is a Fault - Block Mountain.
A fault called a normal fault occurs when tectonic plates pull apart and tensional stress causes the rock layers to break and move along the fault line. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall due to the extensional forces acting on the rocks.
parallel normal faults.
This is described as a normal fault.
This is described as a normal fault.
This is described as a normal fault.
In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other lies below it. The rock above it is the hanging wall and the rock below it is the footwall. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the footwall.
This is described as a normal fault.
Normal fault. The fault itself does not cause the sinking but is part or an effectof the process. The sunken block between two faults is called a "graben".
This kind of fault is called a normal fault and is usually a sign of crustal extension.