The hanging wall slides down relative to the footwall.
Hanging wall normal fault.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.
Hanging wall deformation patterns differ signifi cantly when a basal plastic sheet imposes a con stant magnitude displacement distribution on the master normal fault.
Hanging wall is where the ore is eroding out of the rocks.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
Normal fault s are common.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift valleys found along spreading margins.
The term footwall is derived from miners finding mineral deposits where inactive faults have been filled in with mineral deposits at their feet.
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.
In models without a plastic sheet numerous secondary normal faults form in the hanging wall of the master normal fault.
If you imagine undoing the motion of a normal fault you will undo the stretching and thus shorten the horizontal distance between two points on either side of the fault.
A normal fault will have a hanging wall and a footwall.