Mega Episode: The Origins and Future of Our Continents | SLICE EARTH

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Africa seems like a young continent, as it has only been fully explored since the 19th century. It was the first continent to be inhabited by humans, 2 million years ago... and yet The African continent was born during the early childhood of the Earth. After undergoing a violent cataclysm of cosmic origin, Africa found itself caught in a vice between the other continents. Then, jostled by its neighbors for millions of years, it finally broke free, causing its crust to tear apart. Documentary: Voyage Of The Continents, Season 2: Africa Origins - 00:00:04 Director: Alexis de Favitski Production: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2014) The recent African epic is the isolation of the continent as a single entity. The Tethys Sea temporarily separated Africa from Eurasia, but it too would disappear, and the collision with Europe and Asia was inevitable, causing repercussions from Gibraltar to Anatolia. But what defines Africa today is the opening of a huge rift across the entire eastern part of the continent. Arabia left the continent, and the ongoing opening from Palestine to Mozambique will soon separate the eastern part of the continent and influence the evolution of our Earth. Documentary: Voyage Of The Continents, Season 2: Africa today - 00:50:57 Director: Alexis de Favitski Production: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2014) North America is constantly reinventing itself. The continent is also a wild world of rivers, plains, and ice, where iridescent deserts rub shoulders with lush valleys and mountains that hold more than one secret. From the Far North to the Utah desert, from the Rockies to Death Valley, it contains sites on a continental scale. One of the oldest northern regions on Earth; the “Great Plains” born from the sea; an immense mountain range in the middle of a continent: the Rockies; and areas of intense current activity: a dormant supervolcano in Yellowstone and a moving fault line that will tear California apart, the San Andreas Fault. Documentary: Voyage Of The Continents, Season 2: North America - 01:40:02 Director: Alexis de Favitski Production: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2014) Between North America and South America, the forces of the Earth have carved out a tiny space for what is known as Central America and a tectonic plate: the Caribbean Plate. This plate is essentially a marine world. 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. Furthermore, the formation of Panama alone is believed to have changed the fauna of the Americas and transformed the Earth's oceans. Documentary: Voyage Of The Continents, Season 2: Central America - 02:28:20 Director: Alexis de Favitski Production: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2014) South America is a land of contrasts and extremes. It is home to the longest mountain range in the world, the largest rainforest, the mightiest river, the driest desert, and the greatest biodiversity on the planet. It is a world that drifted in the heart of the South Pacific for billions of years before finally leaving Gondwana to join with North America and form... the Americas. Documentary: Voyage Of The Continents, Season 2: South America - 03:16:45 Director: Alexis de Favitski Production: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2014) 🤖 This thumbnail was created with the help of artificial intelligence. 🎨 #documentary #freedocumentary #slicedocumentary #documentaries #ecology #earth #environment #sustainability #climatechange #geology #tectonics #science #history #nature #geography #planet #volcano #mountains #ocean #rift #plate #landscape #exploration #discovery #secrets #energy #power #sciencefacts #universe