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The mare material is approximately 1000m in depth, and mainly of the Nectarian and Lower Imbrian epochs, with the mare material of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The crater Theophilus on the northeastern side of the mare is of the Eratosthenian epoch. Thus, the crater is younger than the mare to its southeast.

Enough subsistence has occurred to open a few arcuate Graben s on the western margin of the mare.