The colorful speck seen here is called iridescent zircon, embedded in a piece of trachyte. The trachyte (the black rock) is an igneous porphyry rock, which means its volcanic and very old, this piece being around 6 million years old. The traces of zircon is said to be around 3 billion years old, which means there could be a lot more underneath all the trachyte , it’s a lost continent. It’s said to be a remnant of the breaking apart of an old supercontinent called Gondwana. They call the lost continent Mauritia, it once connected Madagascar to India when Gondwana existed. It’s located underneath the Indian ocean island of Mauritius. The zircon could date back to one of the earliest periods of earth. Interesting enough, geologists noticed the gravitational pull was different over the island, suggesting the mass of the continent resting below. The island of Mauritius was formed from newer volcanic activity from mid-ocean ridges , which means the older crust shouldn’t really be there. Geologists and scientists from south Africa are still studying it to find out more. The island of Mauritius , located in the Indian Ocean around 1,500 kilometers off the southeast coast of the African continent Ghose, tia 3-billion-year-old lost continent lurking under African island
http://www.livescience.com/57708-ancient-lost-continent-found-under-mauritius.html Nace, Trevor “An entire lost continent was found under the island of Mauritius” Forbes Fed. 14th, 2017 http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/02/14/lost-continent-found-under-island-mauritius/#7bd183eb58a6
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