dip slip faults in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall are called normal fault.
dip slip faults in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall are called normal fault.
dip slip faults in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall are called?
normal fault
a reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault—the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust. the dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep, greater than 45°. the terminology of "normal" and "reverse" comes from coal-mining in england, where normal faults are the most common.









































a thrust fault has the same sense of motion as a reverse fault, but with the dip of the fault plane at less than 45°. thrust faults typically form ramps, flats and fault-bend (hanging wall and foot wall) folds.
fault (geology)
the two sides of a non-vertical fault are known as the "hanging wall" and "footwall". the hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. this terminology comes from mining: when working a tabular ore body, the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.









































section::::fault types.









































based on direction of slip, faults can be categorized as:









































bullet::::- "strike-slip", where the offset is predominantly horizontal, parallel to the fault trace.









































bullet::::- "dip-slip", offset is predominantly vertical and/or perpendicular to the fault trace.









































bullet::::- "oblique-slip", combining strike and dip slip.
fault (geology)