[3] A preliminary paper describing the geology and geometry of Tooting was published in 2007 by the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol.

Further papers have been published, including a 2010 analysis of flows on the walls of Tooting crater by A. R. Morris et al. (Icarus vol.

This is in accordance with the International Astronomical Union's rules for planetary nomenclature, which specify that craters on Mars less than 60 km in diameter should be named after "villages of the world with a population of less than 100,000".

Research published in the journal Icarus has found pits in Tooting Crater that are caused by hot ejecta falling on ground containing ice.

[8][9] Due to the flatness of the surrounding lava flows (at 3872 m below Martian datum), it is possible to infer much about the crater's formation and ejecta blanket.