Mauritia (microcontinent)

Mauritia is an assumed sunken microcontinent in the Indian Ocean , on which, among other things, the island of Mauritius is located and which extends below the sea surface to the north to the Seychelles . It is a fragment of thinned Proterozoic crust, which probably split off from Madagascar 83.5 to 61 million years ago and then drifted over the Réunion hotspot by v. a. basaltic volcanism was overprinted. Rocks of the basement of this continent have an age of 1971 Ma and between 660 and 840 million years.

Individual evidence

^ Trond H. Torsvik, Hans Amundsen, Ebbe H. Hartz, Fernando Corfu, Nick Kusznir, Carmen Gaina, Pavel V. Doubrovine, Bernhard Steinberger, Lewis D. Ashwal, Bjørn Jamtveit: A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean . In: Nature Geoscience . 2013, ISSN 1752-0894 . doi : 10.1038 / ngeo1736 .
↑ Geoscientists Discover Continent Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean , Sci-News.com. February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
^ Sid Perkins: Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean . In: Nature , February 24, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
↑ Christoph Seidler: Mauritius: The ancient continent is hiding under a tropical island. In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 .

[Torsvik2013-1] Trond H. Torsvik, Hans Amundsen, Ebbe H. Hartz, Fernando Corfu, Nick Kusznir, Carmen Gaina, Pavel V. Doubrovine, Bernhard Steinberger, Lewis D. Ashwal, Bjørn Jamtveit: A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean . In: Nature Geoscience . 2013, ISSN 1752-0894 . doi : 10.1038 / ngeo1736 .

[2] Geoscientists Discover Continent Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean , Sci-News.com. February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.

[3] Sid Perkins: Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean . In: Nature , February 24, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.

[SPON-1132712-4] Christoph Seidler: Mauritius: The ancient continent is hiding under a tropical island. In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 .