The other side is shaped a little.
Hanging wall 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.
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 dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens.
A normal fault will have a hanging wall and a footwall.
If the hanging wall drops relative to the footwall you have a normal fault.
Hanging wall deformation patterns differ signifi cantly when a basal plastic sheet imposes a con stant magnitude displacement distribution on the master normal fault.
In models without a plastic sheet numerous secondary normal faults form in the hanging wall of the master normal fault.
In a normal fault the side that slides downward has a shape that makes it look like it is reaching or hanging out over the side so we call it the hanging wall.
Hanging wall is where the ore is eroding out of the rocks.
Normal faults occur in areas undergoing extension stretching.