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There may well have been tectonics REAL early on Mars, but most of that evidence has been erased by the cratering of the late heavy bombardment, ending about 3.5 billion years ago.

Since then, with the exception of volcanism and some grabens (extensional faults) and the wrinkle ridges (compressional faults) there has been a notable lack of tectonism.

Mars has no mountains that are not either volcanic or impact related. There are some scarps - notably the crustal dichotomy but they are modified old stuctures, not young.

Very little has happened on Mars in the last few hundred million years.

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