And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased...
Genesis 7:17
“The Kingston Peak Formation has long been viewed by some as a key repository of palaeoenvironmental information on which to base a palaeoclimatic model for Neoproterozoic ice ages involving global panglacials.”
Supposed diagnostic evidence for glaciation included
matrix-
supported breccia or conglomerate, ‘lodgement
tillites’, striated rocks, and dropstone varvites.
Lodgement till is
mostly considered glacial debris laid down below a glacier. Some
debrites, the depositional product of a debris flow, were considered
reworked glacial deposits downslope from a partially floating ice sheet.
A new analysis of the messy formation shows that all of it consists
of a mixture of various mass flow debris, as well as normal sediments,
that are fault controlled, likely by earthquake activity:
“From the preceding description and interpretations of
lithofacies, it is evident that, with the exception of thin limestone
horizons and volcanics, all facies of the Kingston Peak Formation are
the product of sediment gravity flow [mass movement] processes in deep
water well below wave base that were generated relatively proximal to
source. The interbedding of olistoliths [heterogenous mixture of large
blocks within sediment], debrites and turbidites all indicate the nearby
presence of unstable fault scarps that exposed not only [sic] older
pre-Kingston Peak Formation and Pahrump Group strata but also underlying
crystalline basement gneisses and granites.”The formation was deposited in a rift basin, similar to other such
Neoproterozoic deposits in North America and other continents. This
suggests these other diamictites are non-glacial:
“Already, many classic ‘glacial’ deposits in similar
Neoproterozoic succession have been recently confirmed to be debris
flows preserved by rapid subsidence in tectonically-active basins on
sedimentological grounds, and may be potential candidates for further
application of this method.”
Several creation scientists have long studied the Kingston Peak
Formation and determined that it was a gigantic mass flow deposit.
--It looks like uniformitarian scientists are catching up.
The new interpretation shows how easily geological misinterpretations
are made, especially when one looks at such underwater landslide
deposits through the lens of ancient ice ages. It also shows that
landslide deposits can duplicate all of the supposed diagnostic
properties.
These landslide deposits were very early Flood deposits.
It appears 
many other Neoproterozoic deposits were also deposited as
mass flows in rifts. Deep rifting, basin formation, and rapid deposition
seems to be characteristic of the very early Flood.
I would also
include the Belt Supergroup of western Montana, northern Idaho, extreme
northeast Washington, and adjacent Canada as deposits formed in a deep
basin that two uniformitarian geologists believe was an impact crater.
The remarkable North American Midcontinental Rift would also be included in the very early Flood ....the very early Flood was indeed extremely catastrophic." CMI
