Hanging Wall And Footwall In Faults

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Hanging wall and footwall in faults. Draw a normal and reverse fault label the hanging wall and footwall for each also show how they move for each fault. This terminology comes from mining. What is the foot wall and hanging wall. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
The line it makes on the earth s surface is the fault trace. A hanging wall is the pieces or rock. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. Where the fault plane is sloping as with normal and reverse faults the upper side is the hanging wall and the lower side is the footwall.
The fault plane is where the action is. The main components of a fault are 1 the fault plane 2 the fault trace 3 the hanging wall and 4 the footwall. The block below is called the footwall. It is a flat surface that may be vertical or sloping.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no hanging wall or footwall. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.