“…Models for the lithospheric stresses that produced the observed distribution of tectonic features viewed by Mariner 10 have involved some combination of global contraction accompanying interior cooling, tidal despinning, and stresses related to the formation and modification of the Caloris basin (Strom et al, 1975;Solomon, 1976Solomon, , 1977Solomon, , 1978Solomon, , 1979Cordell and Strom, 1977;Melosh, 1977;Melosh and Dzurisin, 1978;Pechmann and Melosh, 1979;Melosh and McKinnon, 1988;Thomas et al, 1988;Schubert et al, 1988;Phillips and Solomon, 1997;Hauck et al, 2004;Dombard and Hauck, 2008;Matsuyama and Nimmo, 2009). Patterns of lithospheric stress for each of these models predict specific spatial and temporal distributions of contractional faults and their associated lobate scarps.…”