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ARTE Voyage Of The Continents Series 1 1of5 Oceania The Tectonic Ring Of Fire 1080p WEB X264 AC3
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Nature Documentary hosted by Doug Paulson, published by Arte in 2012 - English narration
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Over the many billions of years of Earth's history, our planet has never stopped changing. Massive tectonic forces have sculpted and resculpted our world in a never-ending journey.
Do you know that Scandinavia was once in the southern hemisphere? And that in the Ardennes we can find coral reefs like in the Bahamas? Or that the largest ocean in the world, the Pacific is endangered?
Since its formation 4.6 billion years ago, our Earth has been subjected to forces of incredible power. Around a still hot core, the earth's crust, driven by mantle convection movements, is in perpetual evolution, tirelessly redrawing the map of the continents and oceans.
As landmasses assemble and separate, they fuel volcanoes and spark earthquakes, building mountains and tearing valleys. They come together or separate on average by a few millimeters or centimeters per year, sometimes more. On the scale of geological time, they shape the reliefs and deep architecture of the continents. We see the Earth, eons in the making, through the eyes of geologists and other scientists.
The history of these continents is part of a "tectonic waltz" of land and sea, a concept as important for the history of the Earth as Darwin's theory of species for the evolution of Man. Tectonics have created life- and destroyed it as well. Huge volcanoes and devastating earthquakes continue to dominate human history. This is a story of high drama and intense beauty, the interaction of geology and life. A true Voyage of the Continents.
Directed by Christopher Hooke & Yanick Rose; A French-Canada Co-Production by La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse / Ideacom International and ARTE France in participation with CNC, Discovery World HD, TFO, RTBF and CNRS Images
1) Oceania: The Tectonic Ring of Fire
The history of Oceania is the history of the Earth as a whole. Along with scientists, we track the information recorded in its relief, from the first forms of life on Earth, to their destruction and rebirth.
Welded to Antarctica for millions of years, Australia is today a deserted landscape that enjoys extraordinary stability. Its neighbours do not share the same luck. New Zealand is perilously located between two tectonic plates, and the volcanic islands of the Southern Pacific could explode, thus disappearing from the ceaseless Voyage of the Continents. In this episode we explore the fiery results of the collision of the Australian and Pacific plates.
