Reverse Fault Hanging Wall And Footwall

The unloading of the footwall can lead to isostatic uplift and doming of the more ductile material beneath.

Reverse fault hanging wall and footwall.

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. The movement along the thrust fault is the foot wall goes down and the hanging wall goes up. This is a landform made from volcanism.

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 fault plane is where the action is. 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. Plutonism is the result of the magma as it has reached the earth s surface into pre existing rock.

Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults. When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults. It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping. Its also called a reverse fault because a normal fault has the foot wall going up and the hanging wall.

The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall. The reverse faults occur when the hanging wall works its way up the footwall. The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace. The hanging wall will slide upwards right.

These either merge into the detachment fault at depth or simply terminate at the detachment fault surface without shallowing. When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. This is the result of tension built up.