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Global patterns of tectonic stress

1989639 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Mary Lou Zoback · United States Geological Survey

Mark D. Zoback · United States Geological Survey

J Adams · Geological Survey of Canada

Marcelo Assumpção · Universidade de São Paulo

Eric Bergman · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peter Blümling · National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Switzerland)

Topics & Keywords

earthquake and tectonic studies High-pressure geophysics and materials Geological and Geochemical Analysis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Climate action

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 341, Issue 6240, pp. 291-298

DOI: 10.1038/341291a0

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 29.87

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N. R. Brereton · British Geological Survey

Jian Ding · Beijing Seismological Bureau

Karl Fuchs · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Søren Gregersen

Harshul Gupta · Cochin University of Science and Technology

А. Д. Гвишиани · Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth

Klaus Jacob · Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Ruediger Klein · BP (United Kingdom)

Marian Magee · United States Geological Survey

J. L. Mercier · Université Paris-Sud

Birgit Müller · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

C. Paquin · Université Paris-Sud

Kusala Rajendran · University of South Carolina

Ove Stephansson · Luleå University of Technology

Gerardo Suárez · Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Max Suter · Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Agustín Udías · Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Zhao Xu · Beijing Seismological Bureau

Mikhail Zhizhin · Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth