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A normal fault is a fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.
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.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall. These happen when tectonic forces push rocks together. It is caused by compression.
a hanging wall is the pieces or rock that that forms the upper half of a fault.
In a reverse fault, compression (plates crashing together) causes the hanging wall to move up. In a normal fault, tension ( plates pulling apart) causes the footwall to push up.
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
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A normal fault is a fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.
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reverse fault. 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 to be like this to be a reverse or normal fault: hanging wall ----------foot wall ----------- in this diagram, the foot wall has moved down making the hanging wall move up to form a reverse fault. remember this on tests: the hanging wall is always above the fault line: /hanging wall above foot wall below / /
Reverse Fault
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Reverse Fault
A normal fault.