In the depths of the Indian Ocean, according to scientific claims, there exists a fragment of the ancient Earth crust that has remained unrecognized for several million years. The sunken crustal mass, named Mauritia, is not a mythical sunken continent that rises abruptly out of the ocean bottom, but a microcontinent trapped under a volcanic island and oceanic crust located near Mauritius and the Mascarene Plateau.
What makes the whole story intriguing is not only the presence of the submerged crust, but rather the process by which the discovery was made using microscopic minerals, gravity measurements, and the entire geological history of the Earth.
