In these faults the fault plane is usually vertical so there is no hanging wall or footwall.
Strike slip fault hanging wall footwall.
Some parts of it dip east while others dip west.
Hanging wall and footwall.
They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift their size does however limit the potential for earthquake because many faults show a combination of dip slip and strike slip motion geologists use more encyclopaedia britannica universal images.
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No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault.
That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks.
P examples of how to use normal fault in a sentence from the cambridge dictionary labs normal faults are common.
The forces creating these faults are lateral or horizontal carrying the sides past each other.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
This terminology comes from mining.