Hanging Wall Rises Relative To The Footwall

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Hanging wall rises relative to the footwall.

Reverse faults if the hanging wall rises relative to the footwall. Magma that has a high viscosity and high silica and gas content. The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep greater than 45. The hanging wall drops relative to the footwall reverse fault fault that occurs when two tectonic plates collide.

The hanging wall drops relative to the footwall. Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. Thrust fault a dip slip fault in which the upper.

If you imagine undoing the motion of a reverse fault you will undo the compression and thus lengthen the horizontal distance between two points on either side of the fault. Hot spring on rolling hills this a dip between hills 4. If the hanging wall rises relative to the footwall you have a reverse fault. If the hanging wall rises relative to the footwall you have a reverse fault.

Cliff like landform created by a normal fault. The terminology of normal and reverse comes from coal mining in england where normal faults are the most common. Volcanic flow that contains a high concentration of gases ash and small rocks. The hanging wall rises relative to the footwall.

Volcanic neck break between rocks where a hanging wall rises relative to a footwall 5. This fault occurs when a hanging wall block has risen relative to its footwall block. Eruption tends to be very explosive. The hanging wall rises relative to the footwall.

Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates collide. Reverse faults occur in areas undergoing compression squishing. Syncline underwater volcano whose top is eroded flat by waves 3.

Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates collide. Fault that occurs when two tectonic plates collide. The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall. The hanging wall rises relative to the footwall.

The hanging wall drops relative to the footwall. Seamount underwater volcano that never reaches above sea level 2. Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust. Caldera magma that filled the central vent that remains after the volcano has eroded 6.

Alternatively such a fault can be called an extensional fault. Cliff like landform created by a normal fault. The hanging wall rises relative to the footwall. A normal fault occurs when the crust is extended.

Reverse faults occur in areas undergoing compression squishing.