Traditionally, an eastern wall.
because the dry wall isn't suposesd to go all the way to the ground
there is a foot wall and a hanging wall the hanging wall slips
No, that is called a reverse fault.
a hanging wall is the pieces or rock that that forms the upper half of a fault.
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 / /
The block of rock below a fault is the "footwall" if you are referring to geology/earthquake terms.
you would call it a normal fault because the hanging wall goes down and the foot wall goes up and over the hanging wall.
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ar·ras (rs) n. pl. arras1. A wall hanging; a tapestry.2. A curtain or wall hanging, especially one of Flemish origin.
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hanging wall - above one's head, foot wall - below one feet (mining definition)
A normal fault is a fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.