What characteristics of a fault tell you whether it is a normal fault or a reverse fault?

Answer 1

A reverse fault is in a zone of compressional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall are pushed up relative to rocks in the footwall.

A normal fault is in a zone of tensional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall drop down relative to those in a footwall forming a normal fault.

Answer 2

A Reverse fault is happens when tectonic forces cause compression that PUSHES rocks together. Normal fault happens when tectonic forces cause tension that PULLS rocks apart.
Normal fault is when the hanging block moves down relative to foot block wall where as the reverse fault is formed when the hanging block wall moves up relative to the foot block walls a result of tension and compression force respectively

Answer 3

In a normal, the hanging wall slips down relative to the foot wall and the reverse fault, has the same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the opposite direction. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall

Answer 4

The angle of a fault plane can be used to tell the difference between a normal fault and a reverse fault. Which side went up relative to the other side is also another way to know the difference.

Answer 5

A normal fault occurs when the Earth's crust is extended. A reverse fault occurs when the crust is shortened and is the opposite of a normal fault.

Answer 6

Their similarity is that both footwall and hanging wall slide down past each other...it's just that either the hanging wall or the footwall will slide down.

Answer 7

A reverse fault one side moves up, while with a normal fault one side moves down.
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Answer 8

Normal faults happen at convergent plate boundaries. And reverse faults happen at divergent plate boundaries.