ABSTRACT
The Ediacara Member consists of a series of siltstones and sandstones which represent pelagic to intertidal conditions. The implication is that there was a continental edge delivering sediment into deep water, at times by means of turbidite flows and occasionally as a delta which shallowed the water to sub-and inter-tidal levels. Some storm horizons can be seen. It is at these shallow levels, around the storm wave base, that the fossils occur. Aiding preservation are the thin films of clay which
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1 Map showing distribution of the Pound Supergroup in South Australia parenafter Gehling, 1988paren.
