The Diaz Point Formation is a highly sheared, late Proterozoic diamictite which crops out along the Namibian coast from Lüderitz to Wolf Bay. It lies with a marked structural discontinuity on gneissic basement, which forms part of the Namaqua Metamorphic Complex. Three units can be distinguished from each other by thrust faults. Alliithologies are characterised by strong, bedding-parallel foliation and intense north-northwest-trending mineral and stretching lineations. A mixed fluvioglacial origin for these sediments is indicated by locally cross bedded channel forms, quartzite layers and rounding of many clasts. These highly tectoni sed lithologies are correlated with Nosib Group sediments of the Damara Sequence to the north and basal mixtites of the southern Gariep Group.