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Episode 1
43minutes.

Voyage of the Continents - North America

Season 2 - Episode 1

Synopsis

North America is perpetually reinventing itself. The continent is also a wild world of rivers, plains and ice, where iridescent-coloured deserts lie alongside luxuriant valleys and mountains holding many a secret.

From the Far North to the Deserts of Utah, from the Rockies to Death Valley, the sites it features are on the scale of the continent itself. A Far North among the Earth’s oldest; “Great Plains” born from the sea; a vast mountain in the middle of a continent: the Rockies; and activity zones that are scorching hot topics: the Yellowstone dormant volcano and a moving fault line ripping through California – the San Andreas fault.

 

The Serie : Via the epic of continental drift, we travel all over the world, to meet scientists who are carrying out state-of-the-art research on the most emblematic landscapes of each geological event.
With these scientists, and thanks to their work, we discover the sites in a new light – landscapes that we often see but rarely look at closely. The journey also establishes the key reference points of life alongside the geologic time scale - the appearance of life, of plants, of terrestrial life, dinosaurs and Man punctuate the geologic time scale.

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