Glacially‐influenced deep‐marine sedimentation of the Late Precambrian Gaskiers Formation, Newfoundland, Canada

ABSTRACT The Late Proterozoic Conception Group, exposed on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, Canada, is a 4 km thick turbidite succession containing a conformable 300 m thick sequence of diamictites (the Gaskiers Formation) near the base. Massive and crudely‐stratified diamictites form beds up to 25 m thick which have a tabular geometry with slightly erosive basal contacts and are interbedded with mudstones and fine‐grained, thin‐bedded …