Structure SWFs Dozens of new animations and interactions for structural geologists. Non-members, click here to subscribe. Requires Flash version 5. In order to avoid creating a huge hole in the ground, the hanging wall must deform as it moves. Non-members, click here to subscribe.
Ramps traverse the stiff layers first.
Then flat segments merge by propagation both up and down dip. Non-members, click here to subscribe. Non-members, click here to subscribe. This animation shows the migration of a null point, or point of no net displacement during the inversion of a normal fault accompanied by growth sedimentation. Because of the differences in sedimentary layer thicknesses in the footwall versus hanging wall, the fault behaves like a vernier scale.