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Newer features are superposed
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on top of older ones
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Large impact forms basin
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Basin floods with lava
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Additional impacts occur in mare
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lava
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Over time both crater rate and
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volcanic activity are declining
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Craters less because debris swept up
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Volcanism less because moon cooling
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