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Thanks for your post. Enough to make one wonder what could have caused such incredibly massive deformations.

Re: my post 48, I'll add a little more about Donald Patten's book.

I first read his books back in the 70's. Since then I have been taking note of subsequent space explorations to see if they would confirm his predictions.

I have been amazed, for instance, what he said they would find in the rings of Saturn they have found. The same concerning planetary electrical discharges or "flux tubes" (found between Jupiter and it's moon Io). Ditto concerning Venus.

He said closer examination of the surface of Mars would show much evidence of flybys with earth, faring far worse than Earth since the Earth has 9.3 times the mass of Mars.

Patten's book comments on their findings: "With Mars experiencing such intense sub-crustal tides, it is no wonder that it has giant volcanoes. The volcanic cone of Ascraeus Mons could engulf the state of South Carolina. The Volcanic cone of Pavonis Mons could engulf Indiana. And the volcanic cone of the gigantic Olympus Mons could engulf all of New England plus half of New York state. The sizes of these vocanoes, results of the ancient Mars flybys." And, this is just the Volcanoes, not to mention the incredible Valles Marineris.

Patten says the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars is the result of planetary catatrophism between Mars and another planet. The asteroid belt being the remains of the other planet. Mars won, however, sustaining intense cratering from the fragments of the planet.

The encounter with the other planet, according to Patten, is what knocked Mars into a destructive, elliptical orbit in Old Testament times. The collision, as Patten puts it, "Created some 3000 asteroids and splattering one side of Mars with another 3000 'asteroids' or fragments. On this day, Mars staggered, and lost potential energy as it fell into its catastrophic orbit."

Some of the fragments were captured by the gravity of Mars and were with her in her flybys of earth. He claims the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, among other catastrophic events, was due to this.

The two moons presently accompanying Mars, very jagged asteroid looking rocks, are the only ones yet remaining with Mars. He has some real fascinating stuff in his book about those two moons.