Reverse Fault Hanging Wall And Footwall
The hanging wall will slide upwards right.
Reverse fault hanging wall and footwall. If we hold the foot wall stationary where would the hanging wall go if we reversed gravity. The hanging wall composed of extended thinned and brittle crustal material can be cut by numerous normal faults. It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping. When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall.
The unloading of the footwall can lead to isostatic uplift and doming of the more ductile material beneath. This is a landform made from volcanism. Its also called a reverse fault because a normal fault has the foot wall going up and the hanging wall. 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.
The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall. These either merge into the detachment fault at depth or simply terminate at the detachment fault surface without shallowing. 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. Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults.
The fault plane is where the action is. This is the result of tension built up. The names come about from the. The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace.
Plutonism is the result of the magma as it has reached the earth s surface into pre existing rock. 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. 2 1 volcanism is the process by which molten rock reaches the earth s surface in order to make new landforms.