Strike Slip Fault Hanging Wall Footwall

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

Strike slip fault hanging wall footwall.

At x 1 the rightward flow rate is 0 192 m sec. Hanging wall and footwall. Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks. No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault.

This terminology comes from mining. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. In these faults the fault plane is usually vertical so there is no hanging wall or footwall. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

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. Some parts of it dip east while others dip west. That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip.

They bound many of the mountain ranges of the world and many of the rift their size does however limit the potential for earthquake because many faults show a combination of dip slip and strike slip motion geologists use more encyclopaedia britannica universal images.