Thrust Fault Hanging Wall

The unloading of the footwall can lead to isostatic uplift and doming of the more ductile material beneath.

Thrust fault hanging wall.

The hanging wall composed of extended thinned and brittle crustal material can be cut by numerous normal faults. Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip. This is not however a hard and fast distinction. Thrust faults typically form ramps flats and fault bend hanging wall and footwall folds.

The hanging wall moves up and over the footwall. Generally when the fault dips less than 45 it s called a thrust fault steeper faults are called reverse faults. Thrusts are commonly low angle faults. Diagram showing how one section of land slips over another in a thrust fault.

Other articles where thrust fault is discussed. Reverse dip slip faults result from horizontal compressional forces caused by a shortening or contraction of earth s crust. The angle of the fault plane in a reverse fault is greater than 45 degrees the hanging wall on one side of the fault moves upward and is usually visible on the surface of the earth. Flat segments of thrust fault planes are known as flats and inclined sections of the thrust are known as ramps.

A thrust or a reverse fault is a dipping fault whose hanging wall is translated up dip. These either merge into the detachment fault at depth or simply terminate at the detachment fault surface without shallowing. The difference between the two faults is the angle of the fault. A thrust fault has the same sense of motion as a reverse fault but with the dip of the fault plane at less than 45.