

Birth of Europe
2012-04-17 · 46 min / episode · ★ 7.3
Crushed, flooded and exploded into life – Europe is a battlefield of Nature. Discover the extraordinary and shocking geological story of how Europe was created by nature’s most titanic forces.
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