A fleck of iridescent zircon that is embedded in a piece of trachyte. Credit: Wits University A 3-billion-year-old “lost continent” lurks beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, new research confirms. Sparkly, iridescent flecks of rocks known as zircons from Mauritius date back billions of years, to one of the earliest periods in […]
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