Thrust Fault Hanging Wall

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

Thrust fault hanging wall.

This is not however a hard and fast distinction. Other articles where thrust fault is discussed. Fault bend folds are formed by movement of the hanging wall over a non planar fault surface and are found associated with both extensional and thrust faults. Strike slip faults have a different type of movement than normal and reverse faults.

A fault which is a very small angle of hade i e. The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall. The inclination of fault plane with the vertical plane is very small and the hanging wall that apparently goes up with respect to the footwall is called thrust fault. Thrust faults are reverse faults that dip less than 45.

Reverse dip slip faults result from horizontal compressional forces caused by a shortening or contraction of earth s crust. Generally when the fault dips less than 45 it s called a thrust fault steeper faults are called reverse faults. The fault plane is where the action is. According to mechanical models of.

When movement along a fault is the reverse of what you would expect with normal gravity we call them reverse faults. You probably noticed that the blocks that move on either side of a reverse or normal fault slide up. The hanging wall moves up and over the footwall. Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults.

It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping. Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip. The hanging wall will slide upwards right.