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What occurs when the hanging wall moves relative to the footwall?
A normal fault.
In a reverse fault where does the hanging wall move relative of the foot wall?
thrust
The type of fault in which the haning wall moves up relative to the footwall is called a?
Thrust
What is it called when faults move gradually rather than suddenly?
Faults are breaks in the crust where the crust has moved. The types of dip-slip faults are normal and reverse faults. In both of these, the movement is along the slope of the fault. Sudden movements along these faults can produce fault scarps. Layers of rock being misaligned is evidence of fault movement. Fault creep is caused by slow movement along the fault.In a normal fault, the plates are moving away from each other. This is due to tension. When the fault moves, the footwall rises relative to the hanging wall. Normal faults occur at divergent boundaries, such as ocean ridges. Normal faults can produce fault-block mountains.In a reverse fault, the plates are moving towards each other. This is due to compression. Here, the footwall falls relative to the hanging wall. A thrust fault is a special type of reverse fault, where the angle is shallow. Reverse faults occur at convergent boundaries, like subduction zones.A strike-slip fault is where the two plates move horizontally past each other. The force between them is called shearing. This type of fault is often called a transform fault, because they occur at transform boundaries.
What is released when rock moves along a fault?
Seismic waves are released when rock moves along a fault. These waves are the ones that cause earthquakes.
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.
In a fault the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall?
This is true of normal faults. In thrust or reverse faults, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall and in strike slip faults, it moves horizontally relative to the footwall.
In a hanging fault the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall?
thrust
What are hanging walls that moves down?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall in a?
Reverse Fault
When the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall it is a fault.?
Thrust
When the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall it is a fault .?
Thrust
When the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall is it a fault.?
Thrust
The hanging wall moves up relative to footwall in a?
Reverse Fault
What occurs when the hanging wall moves relative to the footwall?
A normal fault.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall in?
A normal fault
What is a Reverse faults?
A reverse fault is a fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
