The Kingston Peak Formation of the Pahrump Group in the Death Valley region of the Basin and Range Province, USA, is the thick (over 3 km) mixed siliciclastic–carbonate fill of a long‐lived structurally‐complex Neoproterozoic rift basin and is recognized by some as a key ‘climatostratigraphic’ succession recording panglacial Snowball Earth events. A facies analysis of the Kingston Peak Formation shows it to be largely composed of ‘tectonofacies’ which are subaqueous mass flow deposits recording cannibalization of older Pahrump carbonate strata exposed by local faulting. Facies include siltstone, sandstone and conglomerate turbidites, carbonate megabreccias (olistoliths) and related breccias, and interbedded debrites. Secondary facies are thin carbonates and pillowed basalts. Four distinct associations of tectonofacies (‘base‐of‐scarp’; FA1, ‘mid‐slope’; FA2, ‘base‐of‐slope’; FA3, and a ‘carbonate margin’ association; FA4) reflect the initiation and progradation of deep water clastic wedges at the foot of fault scarps. ‘Tectonosequences’ record episodes of fault reactivation resulting in substantial increases in accommodation space and water depths, the collapse of fault scarps and consequent downslope mass flow events. Carbonates of FA4 record the cessation of tectonic activity and resulting sediment starvation ending the growth of clastic wedges. Tectonosequences are nested within regionally‐extensive tectono‐stratigraphic units of earlier workers that are hundreds to thousands of metres in thickness, recording the long‐term evolution of the rifted Laurentian continental margin during the protracted breakup of Rodinia. Debrite facies of the Kingston Peak Formation are classically described as ice‐contact glacial deposits recording globally‐correlative panglacials but they result from partial to complete subaqueous mixing of fault‐generated coarse‐grained debris and fine‐grained distal sediment on a slope conditioned by tectonic activity. The sedimentology (tectonofacies) and stratigraphy (tectonosequences) of the Kingston Peak Formation reflect a fundamental control on local sedimentation in the basin by faulting and likely earthquake activity, not by any global glacial climate.

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同速裂隙质量流在加利福尼亚州死亡谷的金斯敦峰组中产生了“构造相”和“构造相序”，并与假定的新元古代的冰川期气候有关

美国盆地和兰治省死亡谷地区帕鲁普群的金斯敦峰组是长寿命，结构复杂的新元古代裂谷盆地的厚（超过3 km）硅质-碳酸盐混合充填物。有些是记录冰川冰球地球事件的关键“气候地层”演替。金斯敦峰组的相分析表明它主要由“构造相”组成，这是水下水流沉积物，记录了因局部断层而暴露的老帕鲁普碳酸盐岩地层的相食性。相包括粉砂岩，砂岩和砾岩浊积岩，碳酸盐巨角砾岩（橄榄石）和相关角砾岩以及层间碎屑岩。次生相为薄层碳酸盐岩和枕形玄武岩。构造相的四个不同的关联（“鳞茎基部”； FA1，'中坡'; FA2，``坡底''; FA3和“碳裕量”协会；FA4）反映了断层陡坡底部深水碎屑楔的形成和演化。“构造序列”记录了断层再活化的事件，导致容纳空间和水深的大量增加，断层陡陷的塌陷以及随之而来的下坡质流事件。FA4的碳酸盐记录了构造活动的停止并导致了沉积物的饥饿，从而终止了碎屑楔的生长。构造序列嵌套在厚度数百至数千米的早期工人的区域扩展构造地层单元中，记录了在罗迪尼亚长期解体期间裂谷的劳伦山脉大陆边缘的长期演变。金斯敦峰组的碎屑相被经典地描述为记录全球相关的冰川作用的冰接触冰川沉积物，但它们是由断层产生的粗粒碎屑和细粒末梢沉积物在构造条件下的斜坡上部分或完全水下混合而成的活动。金斯敦峰组的沉积学（构造相）和地层学（构造层序）反映了断层和可能的地震活动而不是任何全球冰川气候对盆地局部沉积的基本控制。