Because these stringers may demarcate bed contacts if muds are deposited on bed tops between gravity flow events, they were subsequently reworked. Textural grading in deformed mudstones might indicate they were emplaced as thin turbidites. Consequently, composite diamictite successions can be interpreted as the result of alternating debrite and turbidite deposition. The scale of downslope movement is uncertain, and therefore so is the environment of deposition. Protracted downslope motion results in the generation of mature, well-sorted, graded sandstones, but sandstones here are compositionally immature and poorly sorted.
Diatoms are very rare and poorly preserved, and siltstone clasts are a source of reworked diatoms.
A setting is indicated on a glacial continental shelf or slope, close to a source of poorly sorted debris. Biofacies are insufficient to constrain age, water depths, or position relative to the shelf break, but the open marine influence is less evident than at Site 1097. Age-diagnostic biostratigraphic material is sparse in the poorly recovered upper part and is partly reworked in the lower part. Diatom valves were often fragmented beyond identification, yet these fragments could be abundant in the material recovered. Below, identifiable diatoms were more sparse.