A dip-slip fault in which the rock above the fault plane has moved downward to the rock below.
(from the article `fault`) Faults are classified according to their angle of dip and their relative displacement. Normal dip-slip faults are produced by vertical compression as ... ...Lying over the footwall is the hanging wall. When rock masses slip past each other parallel to the strike, the movement is known as strike-slip ... [5 ...
A normal fault can result from vertical motion of two adjacent blocks under horizontal tension. (It also occurs in rocks under compression if stress is unequal in different directions. In this case, the minimum and maximum compressive stresses must be applied horizontally and vertically respectively.) In a normal fault, the upper of the two adjacen...
A fault caused by extension.
normal fault. (See fault.)
A dip-slip fault marked by a generally steep dip along which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall.
A fault with vertical movement and an inclined fault plane. The block above the fault has moved down
A steeply inclined fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward in relation to the footwall. Synonymous with gravity fault.
Vertical fault where one slab of the rock is displaced up and the other slab down. It is created by tensional forces acting in opposite directions.
A dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below.
[n] - an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall
gravity fault noun an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall
A dip-slip fault on which the hanging wall block is offset downward relative to the foot wall block . compare reverse fault .
a fault (usually vertical or steep-angled) where rock has moved down the fault surface as a result of tension forces.