Hanging Wall Strike Slip Fault

The displacement of layer b shows that this is a thrust fault.

Hanging wall strike slip fault. The displacement of layer b shows that this is a strike slip fault. That means someone standing near the fault trace and looking across it would see the far side move to the right or to the left respectively. This terminology comes from mining. Some parts of it dip east while others dip west.

Normal faults form in response to horizontal tensional stresses that stretch or elongate the rocks. Several strike slip faults in south ern california were coactive with the 1968 borrego mountain earthquake sequence on the coyote creek fault alien and others. Zones of crustal compression. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. The los angeles area is immediately. Zones of crustal compression. Block x is the hanging wall.

High angle 45 or more dip thrust fault. No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault. Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks. In these faults the fault plane is usually vertical so there is no hanging wall or footwall.

Shallow focus quakes do less damage than deep focus quakes. Strike slip faults are either right lateral or left lateral. Identify the true statement. Tectonic setting the general tectonic setting of the northridge earthquake sequence is well known.

Hanging wall block of the main fault. Block x is the hanging wall. That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip. Hanging wall and footwall the two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.

The forces creating these faults are lateral or horizontal carrying the sides past each other.