Posted on October 10, 2018 by Yonature
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In 2017, a team of scientists led by Ashwal published a paper in Nature Communications suggesting the presence of an ancient continent beneath Mauritius [1]. In fact, his discovery led to the conclusion that a part of the ancient continent, Gondwana (more accurately, a Read More
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Posted on June 5, 2018 by Yonature
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Mauritius is located in the South West Indian Ocean Basin. The Indian Ocean itself started to expand during the splitting of Gondwana some 140 million years ago but was fully formed and filled to what it is now some 36 million years ago. It Read More
Category: Environment Tags: continental margin, corals, diving, fishes, giant crabs, indian ocean, limpet, mascarene islands, ocean bed, ocean floor, organisms seabed, plateau, reunion, ridge, rodrigues, saya de malha bank, sea vent, seabed, seafloor mauritius, starfish, trench
