In a normal fault the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
Hanging wall moves down relative to football.
Normal faults are common.
Formed by tensional stress rocks are stretched away from each other.
Low angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
When the hanging wall moves down in relative to the footwall it is called a fault.
Occurs when opposing when the hanging forces cause rock to break and move horizonally.
Occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall reverse fault.
Tension is stress that pulls rocks apart.
The layer of earths that has the most mass.
Along a normal fault the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.
Since there is thicker crust in the himalayas it is heavier and pushes the crust down farther into the mantle aesthenosphere.
A dip slip fault in which the upper block above the fault plane moves up and over the.
Rift valleys are formed by the sliding of the hanging walls downward many thousands of metres where they then become the valley floors.
A n fault forms when the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
In a fault the hanging wall block moves down relative to the footwall block.
Dip either east or west.
The hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
If a bed strikes north it must.
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben.
Occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.
When the hanging wall moves up in relative to the footwall it is called a fault.
The theory that continents move apart from each other.
A map symbol similar to the letter t is used to record on a map.
This type of faulting occurs in response to extension.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins of tectonic plates.
The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
These usually occur when tectonic forces cause tension that pulls rocks apart.