The Cryogenian record in the southern Kingston Range, California: The thickest Death Valley succession in the hunt for a GSSP

The Kingston Peak Formation of the Death Valley area, California, allows valuable insight into both regional Cordilleran stratigraphy and the number of glacial cycles preserved in the Cryogenian record. In the Kingston Range, the eponymous strata have been previously interpreted to record both Sturtian and Marinoan pan-glacial events. In the context of a search for a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Cryogenian, we...