Found: A Lost Continent!
...If Mauritius sits atop a mascon, it was likely a result of crustal motion that caused an existing landmass to shatter and sink entirely from view. The island then rose back up to mark the burial site of the lost land like a giant tombstone. That theory was formally advanced by geoscientist Lewis Ashwal of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, in 2013. In a brand new paper, published in Nature Communications, Ashwal seals the deal with a new study of 13 small grains of zircon... Read more: http://time.com/4657836/lost-continent-mauritius/ |
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