Since the san andreas fault is a strike slip fault which blocks.
Strike slip fault hanging wall footwall.
Hanging wall and footwall.
That is the slip occurs along the strike not up or down the dip.
Strike slip faults have walls that move sideways not up or down.
The forces creating these faults are lateral or horizontal carrying the sides past each other.
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.
At x 1 the rightward flow rate is 0 192 m sec.
In a strike slip fault a the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall b the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall at the angle of 30 degrees or less c the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall at an angle of 45 degrees or more d the fault blocks move horizontally in opposite directions.
P examples of how to use normal fault in a sentence from the cambridge dictionary labs normal faults are common.
Some parts of it dip east while others dip west.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
No side is consistently the hanging wall or the footwall for the san andreas fault.
This terminology comes from mining.