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The surface of Mercury has been shaped by three processes: impact cratering where large objects struck the surface resulting in crater formation, volcanism where lava flooded the surface, and tectonic activity where the planet's crust moved in order to adjust to the planetary cooling and contracting.
Source: tatoeba (3955449)
Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?
Source: wiktionary
Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.
Source: wiktionary
Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include collapse, crater creation, crater formation, crater forming, crater producing.
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