Normal Fault Diagram Slickensides. The fault plane is where the action is. Slickensides are naturally polished rock surfaces that occur when the rocks along a fault rub against each other making their surfaces smoothed lineated and grooved.
Twenty four mesoscopic slickenside kinematic indicators are described here for the pliocene quaternary active normal faults of the alpine betic cordilleras granada southern spain. Normal dip slip faults are produced by vertical compression as earth s crust lengthens. In this position the fault blocks represent unfaulted or unmoved crust.
When the fault plane is vertical there is no.
This also predicts that normal faults ought to be steep and thrusts are shallow. Other articles where normal fault is discussed. The only difference between the normal fault and reverse fault is that in normal fault the hanging wall is downward with respect to the footwall whereas in a reverse fault the apparent movement of the hanging wall is upwards with respect to the footwall. Fault blocks fault blocks represent blocks of the earth s crust.
