Normal fault a type of fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall and the fault surface dips steeply commonly from 50 o to 90 o.
Footwall and hanging wall normal fault.
Normal fault s are common.
Normal fault geology.
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
A type of fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall and the fault surface dips steeply commonly from 50o to 90o.
An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is a horst.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.
In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
This sliding downward of normal faults creates rifts valleys and mountains.
The hanging wall is to the left of the fault and the footwall to the right.
The rift basin at the bottom of the north.