P examples of how to use normal fault in a sentence from the cambridge dictionary labs normal faults are common.
Strike slip fault hanging wall footwall.
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.
Some parts of it dip east while others dip west.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
At x 1 the rightward flow rate is 0 192 m sec.
Hanging wall and footwall.
No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault.
P a normal fault occurs because two tectonic plates are pulling apart from each other causing tensional stress.
The forces creating these faults are lateral or horizontal carrying the sides past each other.
Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks.
That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip.
In these faults the fault plane is usually vertical so there is no hanging wall or footwall.
Strike slip faults have walls that move sideways not up or down.