According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent named Mauritia. Reconstruction of India-Madagascar-Seychelles, Mauritius and other potential Proterozoic continental fragments that constituted Mauritia 750 million years ago (Trond H. Torsvik et al) The microcontinent Mauritia detached about 60 million years ago while Madagascar and India drifted...
