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The proximity of unconsolidated fretted terrain to the proposed basin result of the mega-impact theory for the crustal dichotomy on Mars implies the possibility this unconsolidated fretted terrain may be eroded deposits of a large ejecta blanket emplaced by the Borealis mega-impact origin for the crustal dichotomy.
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Treco, K.D. Mars: fretted terrain as eroded ejecta from the borealis mega-impact origin for the crustal dichotomy. Earth Moon Planet 60, 81–83 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00612183
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