Mauritia adalah sebuah benua mikro Prakambrium yang terpecah saat India dan Madagaskar terpecah sekitar 60 juta tahun lampau. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Jarak 1.500 kilometer (930 mi) dari Seychelles sampai Mauritius sebanding dengan ukuran pematang tengah samudera Samudra Hindia . [ 4 ]
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- ^ ; Amundsen, Hans; Hartz, Ebbe H.; Corfu, Fernando; Kusznir, Nick; Gaina, Carmen; Doubrovine, Pavel V.; Steinberger, Bernhard; Ashwal, Lewis D.; Jamtveit, Bjørn (24 February 2013). "A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean" (PDF) . Nature Geoscience . doi : 10.1038/ngeo1736 . ISSN 1752-0894 . Diakses tanggal 5 December 2015 .
- ^ Anderson, Natali (25 February 2013). "Geoscientists Discover Continent Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean" . Sci-News.com . Diakses tanggal 25 February 2013 .
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St. Fleur, Nicholas (2017-02-03).
"In the Indian Ocean, Fragments of a Continent Where They Should Not Be"
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It’s true that geologists have found something strange under the island of Mauritius, the former British colony east of Madagascar with a population of 1.3 million. They’re calling it "Mauritia." But it’s not a continent like you all are. As Lewis D. Ashwal, the researcher who made the discovery, put it: "It’s a continent in the geological sense, not in the geographical one."
- ^ "Ancient micro-continent under the Indian Ocean identified" . SpaceDaily. 7 March 2013.