Glaciers, flows, and fans: Origins of a Neoproterozoic diamictite in the Saratoga Hills, Death Valley, California

The Kingston Peak Formation of Death Valley, California, provides an exceptional archive of Cryogenian glaciation and concomitant rifting of Rodinia. In the Saratoga Hills, an 800 m thick succession of diamictite-dominated strata is exposed, allowing lithofacies and clast compositions to be studied in detail, and for the relative influence of glacial versus slope processes on sedimentation to be critically assessed for the first time. Two...