Hanging wall and footwall.
Strike slip fault hanging wall footwall.
No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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Strike slip faults have walls that move sideways not up or down.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
In these faults the fault plane is usually vertical so there is no hanging wall or footwall.
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.
Some parts of it dip east while others dip west.
P examples of how to use normal fault in a sentence from the cambridge dictionary labs normal faults are common.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks.
This terminology comes from mining.
That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip.