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What is the difference of hanging wall and foot wall?
In geology, the hanging wall and foot wall are terms used to describe the two sides of a fault. The hanging wall is the block of rock that sits above the fault plane, while the foot wall is the block that lies below it. In a dip-slip fault, the movement of the hanging wall relative to the foot wall determines whether the fault is classified as normal or reverse. Essentially, if you were to stand in a mine or tunnel, the hanging wall would be the rock above your head, and the foot wall would be the ground beneath your feet.
How does the hanging wall in a normal fault move in relation to a reverse fault?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall, creating extensional forces. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall, generating compressional forces.
How does the position of a hanging wall relative to a foot wall give evidence of the stress placed on a rock layer?
The position of the hanging wall relative to the foot wall indicates the type of fault and the stress acting on the rock layer. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downward relative to the foot wall, suggesting extensional stress that pulls rocks apart. Conversely, in a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves upward, indicating compressional stress that pushes rocks together. These movements reflect the geological forces shaping the Earth's crust.
What is the hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall it is a?
This is a reverse fault, also known as a thrust fault. Reverse faults are caused by compressional forces in the Earth's crust, leading to the hanging wall moving up relative to the foot wall. This type of fault is often associated with mountain-building processes.
In what direction do rocks above anormal fault surface moves?
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.
Is a hanging wall the same foot wall?
no
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 / /
How would you classify a fault in which the foot wall has slid over the hanging wall?
you would call it a normal fault because the hanging wall goes down and the foot wall goes up and over the hanging wall.
How are normal and reverse faults differ?
Normal faults are where the hanging wall drops in relation to the foot wall where as with the reverse fault the hanging wall is pushed higher over the foot wall.
In a reverse fault where does the hanging wall move relative of the foot wall?
thrust
What are hanging walls that moves down?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
What is it when something occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall?
No
What is the difference between a hanging wall and a foot wall?
In geology, the hanging wall refers to the rock layer above a fault plane, while the footwall refers to the rock layer below the fault plane. The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall in a normal fault, whereas in a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
When compression causes a hanging wall to move over a foot wall it is what kind of fault?
Reverse
What happens at a fault.?
it is the result of a foot wall going down and a hanging wall going up
How does the hanging wall in a normal fault move in relation to a reverse fault?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall, creating extensional forces. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall, generating compressional forces.
What is the difference between a foot-wall fault and the hanging wall fault?
Take the fault as an inclined plane with the earths surface as the horizontal plane.The foot wall side of the fault is always located to the side where the plane of the fault and the horizontal forms an acute angle.The hanging wall side of the fault is always located to the side of the fault where the plane of the fault and the horizontal makes an obtuse angle.The terminology takes no regard to the direction of motion of the blocks either side of the fault. Thus for a dipping fault, the Hanging Wall is the block positioned over the fault and the Foot Wall is the block positioned under it.
