| First‐and second‐order patterns of stress in the lithosphere: The World Stress Map Project ML Zoback Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 97 (B8), 11703-11728, 1992 | 2608 | 1992 |
| State of stress in the conterminous United States ML Zoback, M Zoback Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 85 (B11), 6113-6156, 1980 | 1205 | 1980 |
| New evidence on the state of stress of the San Andreas fault system MD Zoback, ML Zoback, VS Mount, J Suppe, JP Eaton, JH Healy, ... Science 238 (4830), 1105-1111, 1987 | 1189 | 1987 |
| Global patterns of tectonic stress ML Zoback, MD Zoback, J Adams, M Assumpcao, S Bell, EA Bergman, ... Nature 341 (6240), 291-298, 1989 | 904 | 1989 |
| The World Stress Map database release 2016: Crustal stress pattern across scales O Heidbach, M Rajabi, X Cui, K Fuchs, B Müller, J Reinecker, K Reiter, ... Tectonophysics 744, 484-498, 2018 | 635 | 2018 |
| Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the US Cordillera B Wemicke The Geology of North America 3, 553-582, 1992 | 633 | 1992 |
| Regional patterns of tectonic stress in Europe B Müller, ML Zoback, K Fuchs, L Mastin, S Gregersen, N Pavoni, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 97 (B8), 11783-11803, 1992 | 591 | 1992 |
| Cainozoic evolution of the state of stress and style of tectonism of the Basin and Range province of the western United States ML Zoback, GA Thompson, RE Anderson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A …, 1981 | 553 | 1981 |
| Tectonic stress field of the continental United States ML Zoback, MD Zoback, LC Pakiser, WD Mooney Geophysical framework of the continental United States 172, 523-539, 1989 | 526 | 1989 |
| Disaster resilience: A national imperative SL Cutter, JA Ahearn, B Amadei, P Crawford, EA Eide, GE Galloway, ... Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 55 (2), 25-29, 2013 | 408 | 2013 |
| Stress field constraints on intraplate seismicity in eastern North America ML Zoback Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 97 (B8), 11761-11782, 1992 | 335 | 1992 |
| Tectonic stress field of North America and relative plate motions MD Zoback, ML Zoback | 323 | 1991 |
| Basin and Range rifting in northern Nevada: Clues from a mid-Miocene rift and its subsequent offsets ML Zoback, GA Thompson Geology 6 (2), 111-116, 1978 | 279 | 1978 |
| Regional geophysics of the Colorado Plateau GA Thompson, ML Zoback Tectonophysics 61 (1-3), 149-181, 1979 | 252 | 1979 |
| Implications of selected subsurface data on the structural form and evolution of some basins in the northern Basin and Range province, Nevada and Utah R Ernest Anderson, M Lou Zoback, GA Thompson Geological Society of America Bulletin 94 (9), 1055-1072, 1983 | 243 | 1983 |
| Climate change and the integrity of science PH Gleick, RM Adams, RM Amasino, E Anders, DJ Anderson, ... Science 328 (5979), 689-690, 2010 | 238 | 2010 |
| Stress field variations in the Swiss Alps and the northern Alpine foreland derived from inversion of fault plane solutions U Kastrup, ML Zoback, N Deichmann, KF Evans, D Giardini, AJ Michael Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 109 (B1), 2004 | 229 | 2004 |
| State of stress and modern deformation of the northern basin and range province ML Zoback Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 94 (B6), 7105-7128, 1989 | 223 | 1989 |
| The northern Nevada rift: Regional tectono-magmatic relations and middle Miocene stress direction ML Zoback, EH McKEE, RJ Blakely, GA Thompson Geological Society of America Bulletin 106 (3), 371-382, 1994 | 208 | 1994 |
| Recent state of stress change in the Walker Lane zone, western Basin and Range province, United States O Bellier, ML Zoback Tectonics 14 (3), 564-593, 1995 | 172 | 1995 |
