On 31 January, 2017, Prof. Lew Ashwal's paper (with Profs. Michael Wiedenbeck and Trond Torsvik) on the existence of a fragment of Archaean continental crust hidden beneath the young ocean-island volcano of Mauritius, was published in Nature Communications. This generated an immediate and surprising frenzy of media attention, with coverage in hundreds of print and web-based articles (New York Times, Newsweek Cosmopolitan, to name a few), and dozens of TV and radio interviews. Public interest was probably sparked by an allusion to the discovery of a "lost continent", bringing to mind the Atlantis myth.
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