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A case study of vertical hydraulic fracture growth, stress variations with depth and shear stimulation in the Niobrara Shale and Codell Sand, Denver-Julesburg Basin, Colorado

scientific article published in November 2021

A multiscale study of the mechanisms controlling shear velocity anisotropy in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

scientific article

A scaling law to characterize fault-damage zones at reservoir depths

A viscoplastic model of creep in shale

scientific article published in May 2020

An integrated mechanical model of the San Andreas Fault in central and northern California

scientific article published on 10 October 2001

Application of rate-and-state friction laws to creep compaction of unconsolidated sand under hydrostatic loading conditions

scholarly article

Assessing elastic Coulomb stress transfer models using seismicity rates in southern California and southwestern Japan

scientific article

Assessing the economic feasibility of regional deep saline aquifer CO2 injection and storage: A geomechanics-based workflow applied to the Rose Run sandstone in Eastern Ohio, USA

scientific article

Author Correction: Multiscale variations of the crustal stress field throughout North America

correction of a scholarly article

CO2 sequestration into the Wyodak coal seam of Powder River Basin—Preliminary reservoir characterization and simulation

scientific article

CO2 storage and enhanced coalbed methane recovery: Reservoir characterization and fluid flow simulations of the Big George coal, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA

scientific article

Characterizing and Responding to Seismic Risk Associated with Earthquakes Potentially Triggered by Fluid Disposal and Hydraulic Fracturing

scientific article

Close Observation of Hydraulic Fracturing at EGS Collab Experiment 1: Fracture Trajectory, Microseismic Interpretations, and the Role of Natural Fractures

scientific article published in July 2021

Comparison of Short-Term and Long-Term Creep Experiments in Shales and Carbonates from Unconventional Gas Reservoirs

scientific article

Comprehensive wellbore stability analysis utilizing Quantitative Risk Assessment

scientific article

Constraining the far-field in situ stress state near a deep South African gold mine

scientific article

Constraining the full stress tensor from observations of drilling-induced tensile fractures and leak-off tests: Application to borehole stability and sand production on the Norwegian margin

scientific article published in 1997

Constraining the stress tensor in the Visund field, Norwegian North Sea: Application to wellbore stability and sand production

scientific article published in 2000

Criteria and workflow for selecting depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs for carbon storage

scientific article published in October 2022

Crustal strain near the Big Bend of the San Andreas Fault: Analysis of the Los Padres-Tehachapi Trilateration Networks, California

scientific article published in 1990

Determination of stress orientation and magnitude in deep wells

scientific article

Did deglaciation trigger intraplate seismicity in the New Madrid seismic zone?

scholarly article

Did earthquakes keep the early crust habitable?

scientific article published on December 2007

Earthquake triggering and large-scale geologic storage of carbon dioxide ⬇️

scientific article published on June 18, 2012

Earthquakes: Climate and intraplate shocks

scientific article published in Nature

Effect of High-Pressure Deformation on Permeability of Ottawa Sand

Effects of Supercritical CO2 on Matrix Permeability of Unconventional Formations

scientific article

Effects of rock mineralogy and pore structure on stress-dependent permeability of shale samples

scientific article published on October 2016

Empirical relations between rock strength and physical properties in sedimentary rocks

scientific article

Estimating geomechanical parameters from microseismic plane focal mechanisms recorded during multistage hydraulic fracturing

scientific article

Evidence for a weak interplate thrust fault along the northern Japan subduction zone and implications for the mechanics of thrust faulting and fluid expulsion

article

Evidence for near-frictionless faulting in the 1989 (M 6.9) Loma Prieta, California, earthquake and its aftershocks

article

Evidence for near-frictionless faulting in the 1989 (M 6.9) Loma Prieta, California, earthquake and its aftershocks: Comment and Reply

article

Experimental investigation of deformation mechanisms during shear-enhanced compaction in poorly lithified sandstone and sand

scientific article

Experimental investigation of matrix permeability of gas shales

Fault structure and kinematics of the Long Valley Caldera region, California, revealed by high-accuracy earthquake hypocenters and focal mechanism stress inversions

article

Faulting patterns in north-central Nevada and strength of the crust

scientific article published on 10 January 1980

Fluid flow along potentially active faults in crystalline rock

scientific article published in 1995

Fracture characterization and fluid flow simulation with geomechanical constraints for a CO2–EOR and sequestration project Teapot Dome Oil Field, Wyoming, USA

scientific article

Frictional properties of shale reservoir rocks

scientific article

Fully Coupled Nonlinear Fluid Flow and Poroelasticity in Arbitrarily Fractured Porous Media: A Hybrid-Dimensional Computational Model

scientific article

Fully Dynamic Spontaneous Rupture Due to Quasi-Static Pore Pressure and Poroelastic Effects: An Implicit Nonlinear Computational Model of Fluid-Induced Seismic Events

scientific article

Gas transport and storage capacity in shale gas reservoirs – A review. Part A: Transport processes

Global patterns of tectonic stress

scientific article published in Nature

How faulting keeps the crust strong

scholarly article

How will induced seismicity in Oklahoma respond to decreased saltwater injection rates?

scientific article

Hydraulic fracturing and wellbore completion of coalbed methane wells in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Implications for water and gas production

scientific article

Hydraulic fracturing stress measurements at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and relationship to the regional stress field

scholarly article

Impact of glacially induced stress changes on fault-seal integrity offshore Norway: Reply

scientific article

Implications of earthquake focal mechanisms for the frictional strength of the San Andreas fault system

scholarly article by John Townend & Mark D. Zoback published 2001 in Geological Society Special Publication

Implications of hydrostatic pore pressures and high crustal strength for the deformation of intraplate lithosphere

article

In SituStress and Active Faulting in Oklahoma

scientific article

Injection‐Induced Seismicity and Fault‐Slip Potential in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Interpretation of hydraulic fracturing pressure-time records using interactive analysis methods

scientific article published in 1989

Intraplate earthquakes, regional stress and fault mechanics in the Central and Eastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada

scientific article

Introduction to special section: Preparing for the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

scholarly article

Laboratory experiments simulating poroelastic stress changes associated with depletion and injection in low-porosity sedimentary rocks

scientific article

Listric normal faulting, stress refraction, and the state of stress in the Gulf Coast basin

scholarly article

Lithology-controlled stress variations and pad-scale faults: A case study of hydraulic fracturing in the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma

scientific article

Lithospheric strength and intraplate seismicity in the New Madrid seismic zone

scientific article published in 1997

Long-period long-duration seismic events during hydraulic stimulation of shale and tight-gas reservoirs — Part 2: Location and mechanisms

scientific article

Long-period, long-duration seismic events during hydraulic stimulation of shale and tight-gas reservoirs — Part 1: Waveform characteristics

scientific article

Long-term permeability evolution of shale seal rocks with argon and scCO2

scientific article published in August 2022

MOLE: A Multidisciplinary Observatory and Laboratory of Experiments in Central Italy

article

Magnitude of shear stress on the san andreas fault: implications of a stress measurement profile at shallow depth

scientific article published in October 1979

Mapping stress and structurally controlled crustal shear velocity anisotropy in California

scholarly article

Mechanical properties of shale-gas reservoir rocks — Part 1: Static and dynamic elastic properties and anisotropy

scientific article

Mechanical properties of shale-gas reservoir rocks — Part 2: Ductile creep, brittle strength, and their relation to the elastic modulus

scientific article

Mechanism diversity of the loma prieta aftershocks and the mechanics of mainshock-aftershock interaction

scientific article published in Science

Meeting the challenges of large-scale carbon storage and hydrogen production

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Microseismic evidence for horizontal hydraulic fractures in the Marcellus Shale, southeastern West Virginia

scientific article

Modeling evolution of the San Andreas Fault system in northern and central California

scientific article

Monitoring of cyclic steam stimulation by inversion of surface tilt measurements

scientific article

Multiscale variations of the crustal stress field throughout North America

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

New evidence on the state of stress of the san andreas fault system.

scientific article published in November 1987

Normal faulting and in situ stress in the South Carolina coastal plain near Charleston

scholarly article

Oklahoma's recent earthquakes and saltwater disposal

scientific article

Optimization of a CO2 storage project based on thermal, geomechanical and induced fracturing effects

scientific article

Oscillation of fluid-filled cracks triggered by degassing of CO2 due to leakage along wellbores

scientific article

Permeability Evolution of Fractures in Shale in the Presence of Supercritical CO 2

scientific article published in August 2021

Permeability Evolution of Slowly Slipping Faults in Shale Reservoirs

scholarly article

Physics-based forecasting of man-made earthquake hazards in Oklahoma and Kansas

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Poroelastic effects in the determination of the maximum horizontal principal stress in hydraulic fracturing tests—A proposed breakdown equation employing a modified effective stress relation for tensile failure

scientific article published in 1989

Predicted and observed shear on preexisting faults during hydraulic fracture stimulation

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Predicting fault damage zones by modeling dynamic rupture propagation and comparison with field observations

scientific article

Predicting variations of the least principal stress with depth: Application to unconventional oil and gas reservoirs using a log-based viscoelastic stress relaxation model

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Present-day stress field in the Gibraltar Arc (western Mediterranean)

scholarly article

Prior oil and gas production can limit the occurrence of injection-induced seismicity: A case study in the Delaware Basin of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA

scientific article

Probabilistic assessment of potential fault slip related to injection-induced earthquakes: Application to north-central Oklahoma, USA

scholarly article by F. Rall Walsh & Mark D. Zoback published 12 October 2016 in Geology

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scholarly article

Rapid intraplate strain accumulation in the new madrid seismic zone

scientific article published in September 1992

Recurrent intraplate tectonism in the new madrid seismic zone

scientific article published in Science

Regional Stress Orientations and Slip Compatibility of Earthquake Focal Planes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

scientific article

Reply to Juanes et al.: Evidence that earthquake triggering could render long-term carbon storage unsuccessful in many regions

scholarly article by Mark D. Zoback & Steven M Gorelick published 7 December 2012 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Report on televiewer log and stress measurements in core hole USW-G1, Nevada Test Site, December 13-22, 1981

scholarly article

Response to Comment on "How will induced seismicity in Oklahoma respond to decreased saltwater injection rates?"

scientific article

Role of Adsorption in the Creep Behavior of Coal and Shale

scientific article

San Andreas array failure is only a temporary setback

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-06-17

Scale-invariant stress orientations and seismicity rates near the San Andreas Fault

scientific article

Seal integrity and feasibility of CO2 sequestration in the Teapot Dome EOR pilot: geomechanical site characterization

scientific article

Seismic detection of CO2 leakage along monitoring wellbores

scientific article

Seismology Inside the Fault Zone: Applications to Fault-Zone Properties and Rupture Dynamics

scientific article published in 2007

Seismology: earthquake forecasting and warning

scientific article

Shear-Wave Anisotropy Measurements in the Crust from Receiver Functions: An Interplay of Lower and Upper Crustal Anisotropy

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

State of stress and intraplate earthquakes in the United States

scientific article

State of stress in Texas: Implications for induced seismicity

scientific article

State of stress in areas of active unconventional oil and gas development in North America

scholarly article

State of stress in the Long Valley caldera, California

scientific article

State of stress in the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico: Implications for induced seismicity

scientific article published in February 2018

State of stress in the conterminous United States

scientific article published on 10 November 1980

Static and Dynamic Response of Bakken Cores to Cyclic Hydrostatic Loading

scientific article

Steady-State Failure Equilibrium and Deformation of Intraplate Lithosphere

scientific article published in 2002

Stratigraphically Controlled Stress Variations at the Hydraulic Fracture Test Site-1 in the Midland Basin, TX

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Strength of the San Andreas

scientific article published in Nature

Stress orientations of Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Drilling Project (TCDP) hole-A as observed from geophysical logs

scholarly article

Stress, strain, and mountain building in central Japan

scholarly article

Stresses in the lithosphere and sedimentary basin formation

scientific article

Structure of the Coalinga region and thrust origin of the earthquake ⬇️

scholarly article by Carl M. Wentworth & Mark D. Zoback published 1990 in The Coalinga, California, earthquake of May 2, 1983

Structure of the New Madrid seismic source zone in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas

scientific article

Systematic stress variations in the southern San Joaquin Valley and along the White Wolf fault: Implications for the rupture mechanics of the 1952 Ms 7.8 Kern County earthquake and contemporary seismicity

scientific article published on 10 April 1995

Tectonic stress field of the continental United States

Testing the use of aeromagnetic data for the determination of Curie depth in California

scientific article

The Role of Hydrocarbon Production on Land Subsidence and Fault Reactivation in the Louisiana Coastal Zone

scientific article

The Stress State of the Northwest Geysers, California Geothermal Field, and Implications for Fault-Controlled Fluid Flow

scientific article

The World Stress Map database release 2016: Crustal stress pattern across scales

scientific article

The impacts of effective stress and CO2 sorption on the matrix permeability of shale reservoir rocks

scientific article

The relation between stimulated shear fractures and production in the Barnett Shale: Implications for unconventional oil and gas reservoirs

scientific article published in November 2019

The role of preexisting fractures and faults during multistage hydraulic fracturing in the Bakken Formation

scientific article

Time-dependent deformation of shale gas reservoir rocks and its long-term effect on the in situ state of stress

scientific article

Time-dependent subsidence associated with drainage-induced compaction in Gulf of Mexico shales bounding a severely depleted gas reservoir

To prevent earthquake triggering, pressure changes due to CO2 injection need to be limited

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Transform-normal extension and asymmetric basins: An alternative to pull-apart models

scholarly article

Upper-crustal strength inferred from stress measurements to 6 km depth in the KTB borehole

scientific article published in Nature

Utilizing A Viscoplastic Stress Relaxation Model to Study Vertical Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Permian Basin

scientific article

Viscoplastic Deformation of the Bakken and Adjacent Formations and Its Relation to Hydraulic Fracture Growth

scientific article

Viscous creep in room-dried unconsolidated Gulf of Mexico shale (I): Experimental results

scientific article

Viscous creep in room-dried unconsolidated Gulf of Mexico shale (II): Development of a viscoplasticity model

scientific article

Viscous relaxation model for predicting least principal stress magnitudes in sedimentary rocks

scientific article

Well bore breakouts and in situ stress

scholarly article

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