The Plio-Pleistocene Koobi Fora Formation, about 560 m thick, crops out east of Lake Turkana and is part of the much larger depositional system of the Omo–Turkana Basin. The upper half of the Koobi Fo
Late Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites are part of the c . 3000 km long Late Cretaceous Ophiolite Belt of SW Asia including the Troodos (Cyprus), eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Syria), Zagros (Iran
Spinel-bearing peridotite and pyroxenite xenoliths dredged from the Dragon Seamount (southern Tore–Madeira Rise, West Iberia and Morocco margin) give an insight into the composition of the underlying