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When a fault is not vertical a hanging wall and what are formed?
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a reverse fault
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Does a hanging wall occur when the fault is at an angle?
Yes! The HANGING WALL is usually associated with / occurs on, the upper face of a near-vertical fault. It is evidenced when a mineral vein which follows a fault has been worked out and then can produce a danger of fall where the rock is fractured
How does the hanging wall in a normal fault move in relation to a reverse fault?
A normal fault is a fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.
How is the hanging wall different from the footwall?
The footwall is the block that is below the fault. The hanging wall is the fault block that is above the fault.
What is the foot wall and hanging wall?
a hanging wall is the pieces or rock that that forms the upper half of a fault.
What type of fault causes the land to move downward?
In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward. With this type of fault, the hanging wall also shifts horizontally away from the fault line.
When a fault is not vertical a hanging wall and a what is formed?
a reverse fault
When a fault is not vertical hanging wall and a are formed?
a reverse fault
In a reverse fault where does the hanging wall move relative of the foot wall?
thrust
Difference between hanging wall and footwall?
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 mining industry because important ore minerals were commonly deposited along fault planes. In a mine along a fault, the miner would be standing on the block lower block and hanging his lantern from the upper block (hence, foot wall and hanging wall).In perfectly vertical faults, you cannot designate a footwall or a hanging wall.
Are hanging wall and footwall the same thing?
No. With a fault there are two different blocks of rock moving against one another. If the fault is not vertical then the block on top is the hanging wall and the block on the bottom is the footwall.
Does a hanging wall occur when the fault is at an angle?
Yes! The HANGING WALL is usually associated with / occurs on, the upper face of a near-vertical fault. It is evidenced when a mineral vein which follows a fault has been worked out and then can produce a danger of fall where the rock is fractured
When a fault is not verical a hanging wall and an what is formed?
its when a hotdog becomes mush when it gets eaten
How does the hanging wall in a normal fault move in relation to a reverse fault?
A normal fault is a fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.
How is the hanging wall different from the footwall?
The footwall is the block that is below the fault. The hanging wall is the fault block that is above the fault.
How would you classify a fault in the hanging wall has slid up and over the footwall?
This is known as a reverse or thrust fault and is formed by compressional forces.
How would you classify a fault in which the hanging wall has slid up and over the footwall?
This is known as a reverse or thrust fault and is formed by compressional forces.
When a hanging wall moves up to the footwall it is a?
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 / /
