The Birth of the European Continent | Full Documentary

From the northern tip of Norway to the hot south of Spain; from the wild sea coasts of the European West to the continental extremes of the Urals in the east - the landscapes of Europe are as unbelievable as they are different. Geologist Colin Devey embarks on a journey across the old continent to explore these breathtaking environments.

In Episode 1 of Expedition Europe, Devey's journey takes him to Europe's borders, where volcanic activity helped shape the continent. From the Urals in the east to the Tabernas Desert in the west, with through spectacular volcanic landscapes. Finally, Devey reaches Iceland, the “newest” part of Europe.
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[GhilaPan]

Thank you for this wonderful and interesting documentary!

[stelampology]

This is a phaaabulous phlick! Nicely done. Thanks!!!

[anneschantl]

Fantastic video. Very informative. Thank you

[marvinbrando]

Europe is without doubt, the most important continent that have shaped our life more than any other.

[susanharris]

I did not get the full geologic history or context from this video. It skipped along and touched down only a few times on a long, complicated story. Explanations, when given, were poor and short. It focused on the evolution and the animals, but not so much on the geologic history of Europe and how it came to be, at least in any in-depth and focused way. You would have just a scant idea of how it came about from this video.

[matiusclicarelli]

The crustacean also looked as if he's still alive too. Didn't put him back 😢 8:50

[inrain]

@5:35 The Lewis Gneiss with its age of 2.9 billion years is certainly very old. But it isn't nearly as old as life on Earth itself. LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor is supposed to have lived about 3.6 billion years ago. But LUCA was already DNA based life and as such it wasn't the first lifeform at all and probably was preceded by other lifeforms based on RNA and its ancestors that even weren't based on RNA. This might have happened 3.8 - 4.0 billion years ago.

So we are possibly looking at the first life being close to one billion years older than the Lewis Gneiss. If as an example we go one billion years into the past from now we are landing in a time when the first multicellular life had just arisen and consisted of algae and primitive forms of marine fungi, when there was no life on dry land and the first vertebrates would only appear 450 million years later. We are talking about time frames that are hard to grasp for us humans.

[valm]

The greek definition didn't use to have europe east to the ural mountains but russia changed it. can we return to origins and put russia out of being called part of europe? it's anyway only 1/5 eastern europe and 4/5 asia...

[etiennenobel]

Europe is not a continent, merely the western peninsula of Asia

[VaxtorT]

Yup that is how it split apart. Only it occurred approximately 4700 years Continental Drift. During the Biblical Flood.

[mohammedsaysrashid]

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[MadMiff]

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