[3][4] Reusch's Moraine was among the first sites discovered to bear evidence of Precambrian glaciations, being only preceded by findings in Scotland (1871), Australia (1884) and India (1887).
The glacial origin idea has been aided by the fact that the diamicton deposited during a period when the Earth was subject to a widespread glaciation.
They argued that the underlying sandstone is not substantially older than the diamicton and that it was not fully consolidated when the striations were made.
Edwards claims that if the sandstone was unconsolidated then the size of the clasts seen in the imprints would have formed much deeper grooves during striation.
Edwards adds further that tills made up of locally derived clasts are nothing rare in the geological record.