Icaria Planum is named after the island of Ikaria, where, according to Greek mythology, Icarus fell and died in the sea.

[2]: 31  Some subsequent volcanic resurfacing occurred ~0.94 billion years ago, in the Middle Amazonian period.

[3] Icaria Planum hosts numerous wrinkle ridges, a class of compressional faults thought to have formed from stresses in the Martian crust.

The wrinkle ridges in Icaria Planum formed roughly 3.46 billion years ago and are largely concentric to the Tharsis Rise, likely due to the immense weight of the emplaced volcanic material as Tharsis formed.

[4] Icaria Planum hosts an alluvial fan, likely due to the breach of an ancient paleolake from an impact crater close to the nearby Claritas Fossae.