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KRÖNER and Correia1 claim that the mixtites in the Lower and Upper Tilloid Formations of the West Congo Sequence are “true tillites”, although detailed study supports the idea that they originated as tilloids deposited by submarine mudflows in a geosyncline2. I question the validity of their arguments.
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SCHERMERHORN, L. No evidence for glacial origin of late Precambrian tilloids in Angola. Nature 252, 114–115 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252114a0
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