Mark D. Zoback is an American geophysicist and emeritus faculty at

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. Zoback is the author of the textbook ''Reservoir Geomechanics''.

Career

Zoback is a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, an elected fellow of the

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and the

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. He co-directs the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity (SCITS) and the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative (NGI).

Personal life

He is married to the American geophysicist

Mary Lou Zoback Mary Lou Zoback ( Chetlain; born July 5, 1952) is an American geophysicist and seismologist. A specialist in tectonic stress and natural hazards risks, she spent most of her career as a research scientist with the United States Geological Survey ...

Selected publications

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References

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