Central America: Where Continents Collide and Nature Thrives | SLICE EARTH | FULL DOC

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Between North and South America, the forces of the Earth have made a very small space for what we call Central America and a tectonic plate: the Caribbean Plate. This plate is essentially a marine world, with which Thierry Calmus and François Michel are intimately familiar. But at the edges of this territory, four immense masses compress, crush and shake this "paradise on earth". These are North and South America and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are commonplace in Central America. Dominique Gibert innovates in the analysis of volcanoes, in Guadeloupe, at La Soufrière, while Jose Luis Arce watches over the Mexican volcanoes of the Pacific Ring of Fire. As for earthquakes... there are numerous teams in Haiti, hoping one day to predict the unleashing of forces stored in the earth and sometimes released by shifts between plates. But the symbolic image of Central America is the junction of the two giants of North and South with the closing of Panama. What's more, the opening of Panama would have changed the fauna of the Americas and transformed the Earth's oceans. Documentary: Voyage of the Continents - Saison 2 - Central America Director: Alexis De Favitski Production: Arte France, La Compagnie Des Taxi-Brousse & CNRS Images (2014) 🤖 This thumbnail was created with the help of artificial intelligence. 🎨 #documentary #freedocumentary #slicedocumentary #documentaries #ecology #earth #environment #sustainability #climatechange #tectonics #volcanoes #earthquakes #caribbean #geology #rainforest #oceans #rift #naturepower #panama #biodiversity #plates #science #naturalforces #seismic #jungle #wildlife #underwater #coral #tsunami #landbridge #isthmus #tropical #oceanography #faultlines