3-billion-year-old crystals hint at lost continent’s fate
Volcanoes, shifting plates caused Mauritia to crumble
![rocky outcrop on Mauritius](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/013017_ts_lost-continent_main_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
LOST WORLD Tiny crystals found inside rocky outcrops such as this one on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius are shards of a long-lost continent called Mauritia, researchers propose.
Susan J. Webb/University of the Witwatersrand