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Authors

Mark Zoback, Department of Geophysics, Stanford 

University, Stanford, CA 94305-2215, U.S.A., e-mail: 

[e-mail].

Stephen Hickman and William Ellsworth, U.S. Geological 

Survery, 345 Middlefield Road MS 977, Menlo Park, CA 

94025-3591, U.S.A.

and the SAFOD Science Team

Figure Credits

Fig. 1: air photo courtesy of M. Rymer