The deposits of glacial tillite also occur in places that were at low latitudes during the Cryogenian, a phenomenon which led to the hypothesis of deeply frozen planetary oceans called " Snowball Earth ".
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The uppermost part of the Neoproterozoic sequence throughout Norway includes a tillite, a record of the Varanger ice age which occurred between roughly 630-590 Ma, the final part of the Cryogenian Period.
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The term diamictite is often applied to nonsorted or poorly sorted, lithified glacial deposits such as glacial tillite, and diamictites are often mistakenly interpreted as having an essentially glacial origin ( see Snowball Earth ).
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It is named after the tillite ( Dwyka Group ) found in the Karoo region of South Africa ( and adjacent areas ), where evidence for this ice age was first clearly identified in the 19th century.
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"' Threshold Nunatak "'( ) is an isolated nunatak located at the mouth of Tillite Glacier, 5 nautical miles ( 9 km ) northeast of Portal Rock, in Queen Alexandra Range.
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It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for geologist Bradford A . Hall who, with Harold W . Borns, did research on the so-called Mawson Tillite in this vicinity, 1968 69.
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The "'Pakhuis Formation "'tillite ( a lithified glacial outwash gravel ) occurs on the highest point of Table Mountain, at Maclear's Beacon and on parts of the Hottentots-Holland range.
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Cap carbonates generally have a restricted geographic distribution ( due to specific conditions of their precipitation ) and usually siliciclastic sediments laterally replace the cap carbonates in a rather short distance but cap carbonates do not occur above every tillite elsewhere in the world.
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In the Ellisras Basin, the Dwyka Group ( late Carboniferous to Permian ) at the base of the Karoo System is represented by the Waterkloof Formation, diamictite and other rocks of colluvial and glaciofluvial origin, associated with meltwater or floating ice from the Karoo glaciation that produced the Dwyka Group tillite in the main Karoo Basin.
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He was engaged in various parts of India, in the Raniganj coalfield, in Bombay, and in the coalfield near Talcher, where boulders considered to have been ice-borne were found in the Talcher strata ( Talchir tillite ) a remarkable discovery confirmed by subsequent observations of other geologists in equivalent strata ( Permian ) elsewhere across Gondwanaland.
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