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Layers on Mars

They're mostly flat, or gently undulating.

There are things like the "inca city" where vertical dykes or crack fills are eroded out as walls.

There are some modestly folded layers in the icecaps

There are a few dipping events in canyon walls and some things that could be cross-sections of impact craters

In Hellas basin, the "honeycomb terrain" DOES show some vertical layering. This is distinctly unusual for Mars.

At the same time, Mars does NOT have the large-scale plate tectonics that drives most of Earth's faults and folds.

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