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Episode 5
42minutes.

Voyage of the Continents - Africa Today

Season 2 - Episode 5

Synopsis

Africa’s recent epic is the continent’s isolation in one single entity. For a while, the Tethys Ocean separated Africa from Eurasia, but it, too, disappeared, and Europe and Asia were inevitably flung together, causing repercussions from Gibraltar to Anatolia.

But what Africa recounts today is the opening up of the entire Eastern part of a vast rift. Arabia is leaving the continent, and the opening from Palestine to Mozambique will soon separate the East of the continent, influencing the evolution of our Earth in the process.

 

 

 

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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