This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/sed.12494 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Article type : Original Article Basinal setting and origin of thick (1.8 km) mass-flow dominated Grand Conglomérat diamictites, Kamoa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Resolving climate and tectonic controls during Neoproterozoic glaciations Kirsten Kennedy * Kirsten.kennedy@mail.utoronto.ca Department of Earth Sciences University of Toronto 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4 Nicholas Eyles Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4 David Broughton Ivanhoe Mines 654-999 Canada Place Vancouver, BC, V6C 3E1 * Corresponding author Short running title: Basinal setting of Grand Conglomérat diamictites ABSTRACT The Kamoa sub-basin, in the south-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a rift basin that hosts a world-class stratiform copper deposit at the base of a very thick (1.8 km) succession of matrix-supported conglomerates (diamictite) (Grand Conglomérat Formation) that has been interpreted by some as the product of deposition in the aftermath of a planet-wide glaciation. Newly