Reverse Fault Hanging Wall And Footwall

The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.

Reverse fault hanging wall and footwall.

Plutonism is the result of the magma as it has reached the earth s surface into pre existing rock. When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults. 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. This is a landform made from volcanism.

If we hold the foot wall stationary where would the hanging wall go if we reversed gravity. The movement along the thrust fault is the foot wall goes down and the hanging wall goes up. When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. These either merge into the detachment fault at depth or simply terminate at the detachment fault surface without shallowing.

Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults. The hanging wall composed of extended thinned and brittle crustal material can be cut by numerous normal faults. The reverse faults occur when the hanging wall works its way up the footwall. The hanging wall will slide upwards right.

You probably noticed that the blocks that move on either side of a reverse or normal fault slide up or down along a dipping fault surface. Its also called a reverse fault because a normal fault has the foot wall going up and the hanging wall. The unloading of the footwall can lead to isostatic uplift and doming of the more ductile material beneath. It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.

Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall. The names come about from the. This is the result of tension built up.