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There is clear evidence that Mars is not yet geologically inactive<ref name='thermal signature'>{{cite news | title = Hunting for young lava flows | date = June 1, 2011 | publisher = Red Planet | url = http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=501 | work = Geophysical Research Letters |accessdate=4 October 2013}}</ref>
* Small scale volcanic features associated with some of the volcanoes on Mars which must have formed in the very recent geological past<ref name=recentepisodicvolcanicactivity>[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7020/abs/nature03231.html Recent and episodic volcanic and glacial activity on Mars revealed by the High Resolution Stereo Camera] G. Neukum1, R. Jaumann, H. Hoffmann, E. Hauber, J. W. Head, A. T. Basilevsky, B. A. Ivanov, S. C. Werner, S. van Gasselt, J. B. Murray, T. McCord & The HRSC Co-Investigator Team, Nature 432, 971-979 (23 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/nature03231; Received 3 September 2004; Accepted 30 November 2004</ref>
* The isotopic evidence from Phoenix of release of CO2 in the recent geological past.<ref name=phoenixisotope/>
It seems likely that there are magma plumes at least deep underground, associated with the occasional surface volcanism on the geological timescale of millions of years. And given that there has been activity on Olympus Mons as recently as
But so far no currently active volcanism has been observed, nor have any present day warm areas have ever been found on the surface, in extensive searches.<ref>[http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=501 Hunting for young lava flows] Red Planet report,
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