{"id":88753,"date":"2019-03-18T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/impossible-discovery-found-on-remote-island-off-african-coast-a-lost-part-of-the-world"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:42:23","slug":"impossible-discovery-found-on-remote-island-off-african-coast-a-lost-part-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/impossible-discovery-found-on-remote-island-off-african-coast-a-lost-part-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Impossible\u2019 discovery found on remote island off African coast: A \u2018lost part of the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/impossible-discovery-found-on-remote-island-off-african-coast-a-lost-part-of-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/planet-earth\/geology\" target=\"_blank\">rocks<\/a> on a small island between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, a discovery that has been described as mysterious for one very important reason \u2014 they shouldn\u2019t be there.<\/p>\n<p>The rocks in question, quartzite, were discovered by researchers at Columbia University, thanks to a grant from the National Geographic Society. They had heard about them from a number of different media reports, but were finally able to confirm the presence of the quartzite, which is usually found in areas that have high temperatures and pressures, for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is contrary to plate tectonics,\u201d said Cornelia Class, a geochemist at Columbia University, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ei.columbia.edu\/2019\/02\/12\/lost-continent\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>. \u201cQuartzite bodies do not belong on volcanic islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/impossible-discovery-found-on-remote-island-off-african-coast-a-lost-part-of-the-world\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/impossible-discovery-found-o...-the-world<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found rocks on a small island between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, a discovery that has been described as mysterious for one very important reason \u2014 they shouldn\u2019t be there. The rocks in question, quartzite, were discovered by researchers at Columbia University, thanks to a grant from the National Geographic Society. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}