Mark D. Zoback is an American geophysicist and Emeritus Faculty at Stanford University.^[1] He is also a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering,^[2] and he directs or co-directs the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity (SCITS), the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative (NGI), and the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics program (SRB)^{[citation needed]}. Zoback is the author of the textbook Reservoir Geomechanics.^[3] Zoback is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications and he holds seven patents.^[4] He is married to the American geophysicist Mary Lou Zoback.

Selected publications[edit]

• John Townend; Mark D. Zoback (2000). "How faulting keeps the crust strong". Geology. 28 (5): 399–402. Bibcode:2000Geo....28..399T. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<399:HFKTCS>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0091-7613. Wikidata Q57850245.
• Mary Lou Zoback; Mark Zoback (10 November 1980). "State of stress in the conterminous United States". Journal of Geophysical Research. 85 (B11): 6113–6156. Bibcode:1980JGR....85.6113Z. doi:10.1029/JB085IB11P06113. ISSN 0148-0227. Wikidata Q97855966.
• Mary Lou Zoback; Mark D. Zoback; J. Adams; et al. (September 1989). "Global patterns of tectonic stress". Nature. 341 (6240): 291–298. Bibcode:1989Natur.341..291Z. doi:10.1038/341291A0. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q56610367.

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