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What is a normal fault?

What is a normal fault? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A type of fault in which the footwall moves up relative to the hanging wall.
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It is now commonly accepted that the dip of the steeper part of a listric normal fault is approximately 60 deg.
Finding the key bed in these situations may help determine whether the fault is a normal fault or a thrust fault.
We interpret this pattern as a Mesozoic normal fault zone whose inversion gave rise, along strike to the NW, to the south Cameros thrust.
Few normal fault earthquakes were observed.
This basin is emphasized by normal fault scarps that face the river from its SW bank.
However, a normal fault just west of Arleau Brook is proposed to explain missing stratigraphy between the Simpsons Field and Jacquet River formations.

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