Geologic.Journey.Series.1.txt
Geologic.Journey.Series.1
Take a sweeping tour of our national pride - the vast, wild beauty we call Canada.
A groundbreaking five-part HDTV television documentary series - Geologic Journey - breathes relevance into ancient geology and traces the extraordinary history of our continent to show that the new world is in fact very, very old.
Imagine a world where North America and Africa are one super continent, where a mountain range the size of the Himalayas covers the Great Lakes region, and a tropical saltwater sea lays over the ground. This is our land - in another time.
What do we really know about the history of the earth beneath our feet? That was the question that preoccupied series producer Michael Allder as he tramped across the historic Niagara Escarpment, near his home in Owen Sound, Ontario. It was the beginning of a four-year project, chronicling 4.5 billion years of history.
Shot in high definition, the five-part series Geologic Journey blends state-of-the-art science, and a range of visual techniques from 3-D animation to Westcam high precision helicopter shooting, with personal stories from people who are driven by geologic wonder.
Geologic Journey documents the incredible and sometimes surprising history of Canada's landscape - a land that humbles humans with its awesome magnitude. This adventure through time begins with the Great Lakes, moves across Canada to the rugged Rockies, and finally plunges into the Atlantic.
Geologic Journey: The Great Lakes tells the story of the dramatic changes in the geologic history and landscape of this region, which has only recently taken the form of the five, great, interconnected lakes. In this episode audiences are shown the roots of a long vanished mountain range that once rivalled the Himalayas, explore the remains of a tropical salt-water sea, and trace the story of a sudden massive flood that drowned vast areas of land. From moraines, to tarn lakes, to the majestic Niagara Falls, the topography and geology of the Great Lakes region is unparalleled, strikingly beautiful and a place of wild contrasts.
Geologic time has shaped the rocks of the Shield into a complex ensemble. Geologists take viewers down into the bowels of the earth to demonstrate how billions of tonnes of metal mineralized here, after the crust was transformed by huge chunks of molten rock from outer space. Audiences are led on an expedition in search of the oldest rock formations in the world, deep into remote Labrador territory. And like fools, we follow prospectors in their hunt for gold, which they believe is buried in the mysterious remains of an ancient mountain chain, 2.7 billions years old.
Geologic Journey: The Appalachians is a trip through the gentle, rolling landscape of eastern North America, a landscape that is deceptive and misleading. Beneath its calm and steady appearance hides a violent and active past.
The explorations and observations these scientists undertake in the Appalachians today make it possible for us to add a few missing pages in the great history book of the North American continent.
Geologic Journey: The Atlantic Coast sweeps audiences up in the dramatic story of tectonic upheaval and how these forces pummeled and pounded eastern North America, until the shape we recognize today finally emerged. Along the way, viewers are invited to travel over a long-vanished ocean, forefather of the mighty Atlantic. We linger over thousands of fossils, whose discovery helped solve a problem that once baffled Darwin, and witness graphic proof of how North America and Africa were once bound together. Our journey takes us to Newfoundland, where we explore the Tablelands mountain range, before moving on to Nova Scotia and then to Morocco, to determine the link between mass extinction and the violent break-up of a super-continent.
At the heart of this fascinating story are volcanic outpourings, massive rifting of continents and ultimately, the bursting forth of a new, young ocean: the Atlantic.
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