Above the upper Diamictite of West Congolian Group, carbonate rocks of the Schisto-Calcaire Subgroup are superimposed, topped by the Bangu-Niari conglomerates and the Mpioka formations. Just as lithology varies from low to high, climates change regularly during sedimentation. By the presence of evaporites and bioherms of Collenia and Cryptozoon in the Kwilu and Lukunga formations, the Schisto-Calcaire Subgroup is characterized by a hot and arid climate developed in the Ediacaran after the glaciation of the Marinoen (635 Ma). The coarser-filled hollows than the grains of the substratum, the clast- to matrix-supported structures and the nature of its moderately misclassified clasts in large volumes of clays and silt indicate that the Bangu-Niari conglomerate has developed in a periglacial environment during the Terneuvien. The granular and repeated bedding of shales from the Lower and Upper Mpioka formations of Cambro-Ordovician age is reminiscent of the varval rhythms of periglacial lakes. These various previous elements show that after the non-longitudinal Marine Snowball, the Congo-Sao Francisco megacraton successively underwent a dry tropical climate and a temperate climate of proglacial regions.

Between two stromatolitic reefs of Collenia (LLH) and Cryptozoon (SH) of the JVL encampment outcrop alternate brecciated, bedded and massive limestones beds belonging to Schisto-calcaire Subgroup. And as the bathymetry fluctuates from supratidal flat to intertidal in the biostromes, the depositional systems of brecciated, bedded and massive limestones regularly change from lagoon to tidal flat. By the presence of the evaporite, of the re-worked elements and of the erosional figures formed by the tidal chenal, the JVL encampment outcrop constitutes a shelf margin system tract deposited after a moderate sea level fall on the continental plateau overlain of brackish water and isolated of clastic material supply under a desertic climate within the later Ediacaran period. This regression, caused by a local epirogenic mouvement, is enameled of numerous minor sedimentary cycles.

In the Western Congo Basin, The C4a Member of the Lufu-Toto region is characterized by the combination of mixed silico-clastic carbonate facies and purely carbonate facies divided into four zones of the facies. The first area of facies (ZF1) is characterized by the gray-green marls with lenticular bedding of maritime marshes, the purple marls with planar bedding of muddy flat and the dolomitic shales of salt pond. The second zone of facies (ZF2) is characterized by mixed flat sandstone marls. The combination of these two areas with the tidal channels (ZF4) translated by the purple marls with oblique bedding is typical of a macrotidal coast, adjacent to the restricted lagoon (ZF3) with laminar limestone, mudstone limestone and gray dolomite otherwise called « coastal-lagoon complex ».