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female narrator: ITALY.
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IT'S A PLACE THAT MEANS
SO MUCH TO SO MANY.
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THE ART,
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THE CULTURE,
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THE BEACHES,
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THE MOUNTAINS.
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ITALY IS A SKINNY BOOT
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THRUST INTO THE BLUE
OF THE SPARKLING MEDITERRANEAN
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WITH THE ISLAND OF SICILY
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LIKE A BALL
BALANCING AT ITS TOE.
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BUT ITALY HASN'T
ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THIS.
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IT IS A TURBULENT LAND
GEOLOGICALLY
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AND HAS CHANGED TREMENDOUSLY
OVER TIME.
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SINCE THE DAYS
OF LEONARDO DA VINCI,
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SCIENTISTS HAVE
STRUGGLED TO LEARN
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WHAT MAKES THIS LAND
SO DRAMATIC,
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SO UNUSUAL,
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SO VIOLENT.
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[siren wailing]
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THIS IS THE LAND THAT GAVE BIRTH
TO THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY
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IN THE 17TH CENTURY.
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EVER SINCE THEN,
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GEOLOGIC DISCOVERIES
MADE IN ITALY
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HAVE ROCKED OUR THINKING
ABOUT OUR PLANET.
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- [speaks Italian]
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narrator: IT'S A SUNNY DAY
IN EARLY SPRING.
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- [speaking Italian]
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narrator:
AMERICAN GEOMORPHOLOGIST
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FRANK PAZZAGLIA IS WORKING
ON THE MUSONE RIVER
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IN THE APENNINE MOUNTAINS.
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WITH HIM IS AN ITALIAN STUDENT,
SANDRO MARIANI.
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- [speaking Italian]
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- [speaking Italian]
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- SI, SI. PERFECTO.
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narrator: THE GRANDSON OF
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE U.S.,
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FRANK IS INTRIGUED
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BY THE COMPLEXITIES
OF ITALIAN GEOLOGY.
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HE'S WORKING IN ITALY AS PART
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OF AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM
OF EARTH SCIENTISTS,
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HOPING TO ADD SOME NEW PAGES
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TO ITALY'S FASCINATING,
UNFINISHED GEOLOGIC TALE.
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SPECIFICALLY, THEY WOULD LIKE
TO ANSWER A QUESTION
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THAT HAS BEEN NAGGING
AT GEOLOGISTS FOR YEARS.
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ARE THE APENNINES STILL GROWING,
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OR ARE PARTS OF THEM
NO LONGER ACTIVE?
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- THERE IS AN OPINION
AMONG MANY GEOSCIENTISTS
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THAT THE FRONT
OF THE APENNINES ARE DEAD,
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THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER GROWING
TECTONICALLY.
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NOW THIS IS NOT SHARED
BY ALL GEOLOGISTS.
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SO WE'VE DEFINED
FOR OURSELVES HERE
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A VERY AMBITIOUS PROJECT
TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
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THE GROWTH AND THE EVOLUTION
OF THE APENNINE MOUNTAINS.
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AND IN DOING THIS AND TRYING
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TO UNDERSTAND THIS
PARTICULAR MOUNTAIN RANGE,
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WE HOPE TO BE ABLE
TO SAY SOMETHING MORE GENERAL
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ABOUT HOW MOUNTAINS ARE BUILT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
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AND HOW THE LESSONS
THAT WE LEARNED HERE TIE IN
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TO THE GENERAL THEORY
OF PLATE TECTONICS
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AND THE CONSTRUCTION
OF GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGES.
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narrator: THE GROUNDWORK FOR
UNDERSTANDING ITALY'S MOUNTAINS
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HAD ALREADY BEEN LAID
CENTURIES AGO
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BY SCIENTIFIC PIONEERS.
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IT WAS HERE IN THE APENNINES
DURING THE RENAISSANCE
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THAT LEONARDO DA VINCI
AND LATER, NICOLAUS STENO,
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STUDIED FOSSILIZED SEA SHELLS.
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THEY REALIZED
THAT THESE WERE THE KEY
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TO UNDERSTANDING THE GROWTH
OF THESE MOUNTAINS.
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THE WORD "GEOLOGY" ITSELF
WAS INVENTED IN ITALY
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IN 1603 BY ULISSE ALDROVANDI.
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FOR FRANK PAZZAGLIA
AND HIS PREDECESSORS,
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ITALY IS A MOST REWARDING PLACE
TO STUDY MOUNTAINS.
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SOME 75% OF THE LAND
IS MOUNTAINOUS.
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IN THE NORTH
ARE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS,
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THE ITALIAN ALPS.
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HEADING SOUTH, THE APENNINES
FORM THE BACKBONE OF ITALY.
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THEY RUN DOWN THE ENTIRE LENGTH
OF THE PENINSULA
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AND INTO NORTHERN SICILY.
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WHERE THE MOUNTAINS REACH
TO THE COAST,
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LIMESTONE CLIFFS RISE STEEPLY
FROM THE SEA.
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THE COLORFUL TOWNS
OF CINQUE TERRE
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IN NORTHERN ITALY
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ARE STACKED AMONG THESE CLIFFS.
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THE APENNINES MEET THE SEA AGAIN
IN SOUTHERN ITALY,
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MAKING FOR STUNNING SCENERY
ON THE AMALFI COAST.
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FROM SICILY TO THE ALPS,
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ITALY'S MOUNTAINS
ARE A STEADY PRESENCE,
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AND FOR THE MOST PART,
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IT'S OBVIOUS TO GEOLOGISTS
THAT THE BULK OF THE MOUNTAINS
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ARE ACTIVELY GROWING.
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IN FACT, IN SOME PLACES,
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AS FRANK PAZZAGLIA
AND HIS COLLEAGUES WELL KNOW,
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THEY ARE GROWING
UNUSUALLY QUICKLY.
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ONE OF THE FASTEST-RISING
MOUNTAIN RANGES
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IS CLOSE TO A CITY
KNOWN ALL AROUND THE WORLD
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FOR ITS LEANING TOWER,
WHICH DATES FROM 1173.
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PISA IS ALSO A VIBRANT CENTER
OF LEARNING
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AND HAS BEEN
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
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JUST DOWN THE ROAD
FROM THE LEANING TOWER,
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GIANCARLO MOLLI
IS A GEOLOGY PROFESSOR
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AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF PISA,
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WHERE GALILEO TAUGHT
IN THE 16TH CENTURY.
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TODAY GIANCARLO AND HIS STUDENTS
ARE DISCUSSING
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THE NEARBY MOUNTAINS
THAT ARE RISING SO QUICKLY.
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THEY ARE CALLED
THE ALPI APUANE.
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narrator:
MUCH OF THE GEOLOGIC STORY
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OF THE ALPI APUANE
HAS BEEN PIECED TOGETHER
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BY ITALIAN GEOLOGISTS
OVER THE YEARS.
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narrator: BUT GIANCARLO
IS DETERMINED
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TO FILL IN THE BLANKS.
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MYSTERIES REMAIN AS TO HOW FAST
THESE MOUNTAINS HAVE RISEN.
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GIANCARLO WANTS TO KNOW
EXACTLY HOW FAST AND WHY.
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THESE ARE THE MOUNTAINS
THAT BROUGHT UP FROM THE DEPTHS
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A VERY RARE AND EXCEEDINGLY
BEAUTIFUL ROCK.
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THAT ROCK IS
THE FAMOUS ITALIAN MARBLE
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SHAPED CENTURIES AGO
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BY THE SCULPTORS
OF THE RENAISSANCE.
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IN FLORENCE,
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MARBLE ADORNS THE ORNATE
CAMPANILE AND DUOMO.
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IT WAS HERE IN FLORENCE
THAT MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
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BROUGHT TO LIFE
HIS UNFORGETTABLE STATUE
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OF THE YOUNG DAVID.
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THE DAVID STANDS NEXT
TO UNFINISHED SCULPTURES
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KNOWN AS THE PRISONERS.
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THEY ARE STILL STRUGGLING
TO COME OUT OF THE ROCK.
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MICHELANGELO'S
SUBLIME SCULPTURES
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ALSO GUARD THE TOMBS
OF THE POWERFUL MEDICI FAMILY.
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HE FOUND THE PURE MARBLE
THAT HE NEEDED FOR HIS WORK
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IN THE ALPI APUANE MOUNTAINS
NEAR THE TOWN OF CARRARA.
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THE ALPI APUANE ARE SO NAMED
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FOR THEIR CRAGGY,
ALPINE-LOOKING PEAKS.
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THEIR DAZZLING WHITENESS
CAN EASILY BE MISTAKEN
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FOR SNOW FROM A DISTANCE.
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BUT THE WHITE IS NOT SNOW.
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IT'S MARBLE.
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ALL OVER THESE MOUNTAINS
ARE QUARRIES,
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WHERE HUGE CHUNKS OF MARBLE
HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED.
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THESE QUARRIES REMAIN
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRODUCER
OF MARBLE.
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narrator: FOR GEOLOGISTS
LIKE GIANCARLO MOLLI,
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A QUARRY CAN BE
AN EXCELLENT PLACE
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TO STUDY THE INSIDES
OF MOUNTAINS.
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THE ROCK LAYERS
HAVE BEEN EXPOSED,
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MAKING IT EASIER TO TELL
HOW THEY'VE BEEN LAID DOWN,
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SQUASHED, AND FOLDED.
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THE HARD MARBLES WERE CREATED
FROM SOFTER LIMESTONE.
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IT WAS IN THE LIMESTONE HILLS
OF TUSCANY AROUND FLORENCE
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THAT LEONARDO DA VINCI
FOUND FOSSILIZED SEASHELLS.
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THIS WAS IN THE EARLY 1500s,
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RIGHT AT THE TIME MICHELANGELO
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WAS LABORING
OVER HIS SCULPTURES.
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WHEN LEONARDO FOUND
THE SEASHELLS,
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IT WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD HOW
THEY HAD GOTTEN OUT OF THE SEA
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AND INTO THE MOUNTAINS.
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BUT OVER THE YEARS,
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SCIENTISTS DEVELOPED
AN IMPRESSIVE EXPLANATION.
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MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO,
THERE WAS NO ITALY HERE.
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INSTEAD,
THERE WAS A SHALLOW OCEAN
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CALLED THE TETHYS.
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- THE GEOLOGIC STORY OF ITALY
IS REALLY FASCINATING
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO BACK
TO SET THE STAGE.
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BEFORE THERE WAS ANYTHING
THAT WE WOULD RECOGNIZE
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AS THE APENNINE MOUNTAINS,
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THERE WAS THE SEPARATION
OR THE BREAKUP
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OF A LARGE SUPERCONTINENT
CALLED PANGAEA.
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AND IN THE BREAKUP
OF THIS CONTINENT,
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A NEW OCEAN BASIN
WAS CREATED.
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WE CALL THIS OCEAN BASIN TETHYS.
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narrator:
TINY SEA CREATURES LIVED
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IN THE ANCIENT TETHYS OCEAN.
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OVER TIME,
AS THEY LIVED AND THEN DIED,
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THEIR REMAINS DRIFTED
TO THE OCEAN FLOOR.
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THESE DEPOSITS BUILT UP LAYERS
OF SEDIMENT MILES THICK
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AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS SEA.
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EVENTUALLY, THE LAYERS HARDENED
INTO LIMESTONE.
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IN THE CASE
OF THE CARRARA MARBLES,
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THE LIMESTONE
WAS THEN BURIED DEEPLY
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BY TECTONIC FORCES
OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS.
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EXTREME HEAT AND PRESSURE
BAKED IT INTO MARBLE.
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- THIS CUT OF MARBLE IS SPECIAL,
A PURE WHITE MARBLE.
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THAT IS A--THAT IS THE REASON
WHY IT WAS USED BY THE ROMAN
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AND THEN DURING RENAISSANCE,
FOR EXAMPLE BY MICHELANGELO,
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UP TO NOW
FOR MONUMENTS
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AS WELL AS FOR BUILDING STONE.
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AND THE FACT THAT IT IS SO PURE
IS DUE TO THE FACT
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THAT THE ORIGINAL SEDIMENT
OF THE ENVIRONMENT WAS SPECIAL.
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narrator:
THAT SPECIAL ENVIRONMENT WAS
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A WARM, CALM, SHALLOW OCEAN,
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SOMETHING LIKE THE CARIBBEAN SEA
OF TODAY.
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BUT TO PRODUCE MARBLE
THAT IS SO PURE AND WHITE,
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THE ORIGINAL SEA FLOOR
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HAD TO BE WELL AWAY
FROM BEACHES AND SAND.
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BUT HOW DID ITALY'S LIMESTONES,
FORMED IN THE SEA,
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END UP AS RUGGED MOUNTAINS,
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RISING FAR ABOVE
SEA LEVEL TODAY?
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THIS QUESTION PUZZLED GEOLOGISTS
FOR CENTURIES.
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THE PLACE WHERE THE PUZZLE
FINALLY BEGAN TO FIT TOGETHER
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WAS IN ONE OF THE WORLD'S
GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGES,
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THE ALPS.
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A PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC PART
OF THIS MAJESTIC RANGE
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GUARDS ITALY'S
NORTHERNMOST BORDER.
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PIECING TOGETHER THE STORY
OF THE ALPS
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WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT
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PARTLY BECAUSE
OF THE VERTICAL TERRAIN
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AND PARTLY BECAUSE THE ROCKS
OF THE ALPS SEEMED ALL WRONG.
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THEY WERE TOPSY-TURVY.
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IT WASN'T UNTIL THE 1960s
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AND THE ADVENT OF THE THEORY
OF PLATE TECTONICS
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THAT THE ALPS BEGAN
TO MAKE SENSE.
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ABOUT 80 MILLION YEARS AGO,
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GLOBAL TECTONIC FORCES CAUSED
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THE CONTINENTS
OF AFRICA AND EUROPE
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TO APPROACH EACH OTHER.
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IN BETWEEN THEM,
THE SEA FLOOR OF THE TETHYS,
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INCLUDING A SPECIAL PIECE
OF CRUST, OR MICROPLATE,
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CALLED ADRIA,
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DOVE OR SUBDUCTED
BENEATH EUROPE.
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AS THIS HAPPENED,
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GREAT SLABS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST
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AND SEDIMENTS FROM THE SEA FLOOR
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WERE PILED UP INTO MOUNTAINS
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AT THE EDGE
OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.
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IN SOME PLACES,
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OLDER ROCKS WERE SHOVED
OVER YOUNGER ONES,
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OBSCURING THEIR ORIGINS.
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GEOLOGISTS CLIMBING HIGH
IN THE MOUNTAINS
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EVEN FOUND A PIECE
OF THE EARTH'S MANTLE,
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WHICH IS NORMALLY BURIED
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20 MILES BENEATH
THE EARTH'S CRUST.
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THE ALPS WERE A GEOLOGICAL MESS,
BUT A BEAUTIFUL ONE.
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AND FROM THE UNRAVELING
OF THIS MESS,
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GEOLOGISTS ANSWERED THE QUESTION
OF HOW SEASHELL FOSSILS
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COULD END UP IN MOUNTAINS.
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WHEN THE CONTINENTS COLLIDED,
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ANCIENT LIMESTONES
FROM THE TETHYS OCEAN
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WERE THRUST HIGH IN THE AIR.
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ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC
EXAMPLES OF THIS ACTION
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CAN BE SEEN
IN ITALY'S DOLOMITES.
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HERE, HUGE LAYERS OF LIMESTONE,
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ONCE RESTING FAR BELOW
THE SURFACE OF THE SEA,
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ARE NOW STANDING
AT GREAT HEIGHTS
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DRAPED IN HIGH
MOUNTAIN GLACIERS.
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GLACIERS ALSO CARVED OUT
SPECTACULAR LAKES,
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LIKE LAKE COMO
DURING THE ICE AGES.
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ARMED WITH THE STORY
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OF THE CATACLYSMIC BIRTH
OF THE ALPS,
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GEOLOGISTS BEGAN TO EXPLORE
WHETHER THIS FANTASTIC TALE
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COULD ALSO EXPLAIN THE BIRTH
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OF ITALY'S OTHER
GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGE,
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THE APENNINES.
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WERE THESE ALSO PUSHED UP
BY COLLIDING PLATES?
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THE STORY FIT IN MANY PLACES,
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BUT IN SOME, IT DIDN'T.
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THE ALPI APUANE RANGE
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WAS ONE OF THOSE PLACES
WHERE IT DIDN'T.
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GEOLOGISTS COULD SEE
THAT SOMETHING FAR DIFFERENT
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MUST HAVE MADE THESE MOUNTAINS.
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BUT WHAT WAS IT?
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IT WASN'T UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER
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THAT THIS MYSTERY
WOULD BE SOLVED.
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THERE WAS ANOTHER PLACE IN ITALY
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THAT LOOKED VERY STRANGE
TO GEOLOGISTS.
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IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CALABRIA
AT THE TOE OF THE BOOT,
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGIST
NANO SEEBER IS EXPLORING
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HOW THIS GEOLOGICALLY PERPLEXING
AREA CAME TO BE.
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ON THE MAP,
CALABRIA FORMS A LINK
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BETWEEN THE APENNINES
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AND THE MOUNTAINS
TO THE SOUTH IN SICILY.
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BUT THE APENNINES
AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SICILY
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ARE MOSTLY COMPOSED OF LIMESTONE
AND OTHER SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.
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IN CONTRAST,
CALABRIA'S MOUNTAINS ARE MADE
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OF GRANITE AND METAMORPHIC ROCK,
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TOTALLY DIFFERENT
FROM LIMESTONE.
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OVER THE YEARS,
ITALIAN GEOLOGISTS PUZZLED
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OVER THE STRANGE ROCKS
OF CALABRIA,
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MUCH AS NANO SEEBER
IS DOING TODAY.
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- IN GEOLOGY,
THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
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YOU NEED TO LOOK AT A MOUNTAIN
AND THINK OF WHAT'S IN IT.
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00:15:14,814 --> 00:15:17,550
AND NOT ONLY THAT,
BUT THINK HOW IT CHANGES
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THE SHAPE OF THE ROCKS
INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN.
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narrator: IT SOON BECAME
APPARENT TO ITALIAN GEOLOGISTS
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THAT THE ODD ROCKS OF CALABRIA
EXTENDED INTO SICILY.
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00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:33,166
- IT'S CONTROLLED BY THIS FORCE.
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narrator: THERE WAS
A PART OF SICILY,
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THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER,
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THAT WAS VERY DIFFERENT
FROM THE REST OF THE ISLAND.
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HERE AT MESSINA,
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THE ROCKS ARE MORE LIKE
CALABRIA'S ROCKS
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AND NOTHING LIKE THE REST
OF THE APENNINES.
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CLOSE BY, THE SICILIAN
COASTAL RESORT OF TAORMINA
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00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:55,989
IS ALSO BUILT ON ROCKS
LIKE CALABRIA'S.
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THE ROCKS OF THE REST OF SICILY
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FIT WITH THE APENNINES
ON THE MAINLAND.
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WHAT COULD EXPLAIN
THESE DIFFERENCES?
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IT TOOK A NEW TWIST
TO THE THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS
300
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FOR GEOLOGISTS TO FIGURE OUT
WHERE THESE ROCKS HAD COME FROM.
301
00:16:14,941 --> 00:16:16,343
AND WITH THAT TWIST
302
00:16:16,376 --> 00:16:18,278
CAME A DRAMATIC
NEW UNDERSTANDING
303
00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:20,713
OF ALL OF ITALY.
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00:16:20,747 --> 00:16:24,717
IT TURNS OUT THAT THE ROCKS
OF CALABRIA AND NORTHERN SICILY
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STRONGLY RESEMBLED
THOSE OF THE ALPS.
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00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:32,459
AND IN FACT,
AS FRANK PAZZAGLIA LEARNED
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FROM HIS ITALIAN COLLEAGUES,
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THESE ROCKS HAD ONCE BEEN
PART OF FRANCE.
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00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:43,570
- ITALY AT ONE TIME WAS ACTUALLY
CONNECTED TO FRANCE.
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AND OVER THE PAST SEVERAL
TENS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS,
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IT HAS BEEN SWINGING
TO THE EAST.
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narrator: CHUNKS OF ROCK
THAT WOULD BECOME ITALY
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ALONG WITH CORSICA AND SARDINIA
314
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SEPARATED FROM FRANCE
ABOUT 30 MILLION YEARS AGO.
315
00:16:59,052 --> 00:17:01,421
ITALY, STILL UNDERWATER,
316
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PLOWED INTO
THE ADRIA MICROPLATE,
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WHICH SUBDUCTED BENEATH IT.
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IN THE PROCESS,
PIECES OF ADRIA WERE SCRAPED OFF
319
00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:14,501
AND A NEW MOUNTAIN RANGE
BEGAN TO GROW.
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THE APENNINES WERE BORN.
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INITIALLY THE MOUNTAINS WERE
BELOW SEA LEVEL.
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FINALLY, BETWEEN
5 AND 10 MILLION YEARS AGO,
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00:17:25,578 --> 00:17:29,616
ITALY EMERGED FROM THE SEA.
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THE SUBDUCTION PROCESS CAUSED
A GROWING WEDGE OF MATERIAL
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THAT RAN DOWN THE WHOLE LENGTH
OF THE ITALIAN PENINSULA.
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- SO ITALY LOOKS LIKE A BOOT
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POSITIONED TO KICK TO THE WEST,
328
00:17:44,864 --> 00:17:48,268
BUT IN FACT, IT IS MOVING
BACK TOWARDS THE EAST
329
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SWINGING AND CONSUMING
THE ADRIA MICROPLATE
330
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IN ITS WAKE.
331
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narrator: THE SWINGING ITALIAN
BOOT THAT EMERGED FROM THE SEA
332
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SOLVES LEONARDO DA VINCI'S
MYSTERY
333
00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:01,648
ABOUT HOW
THE FOSSILIZED SEASHELLS
334
00:18:01,681 --> 00:18:04,817
GOT INTO THE APENNINES.
335
00:18:04,851 --> 00:18:06,153
BUT THIS FASCINATING TALE
336
00:18:06,186 --> 00:18:08,821
OF THE BIRTH OF ITALY
AND THE APENNINES
337
00:18:08,855 --> 00:18:11,691
WAS NOT YET THE WHOLE STORY.
338
00:18:11,724 --> 00:18:14,727
THERE WERE SOME VERY FAMOUS
MOUNTAINS IN THE SOUTH
339
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THAT DID NOT FIT
THIS PICTURE AT ALL.
340
00:18:17,764 --> 00:18:20,133
OR DID THEY?
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IN SOUTHERN ITALY
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00:18:21,401 --> 00:18:24,637
ABOVE THE FAST-MOVING FOOT
OF THE ITALIAN BOOT
343
00:18:24,671 --> 00:18:27,540
LOOMS THE LEGENDARY
MOUNT VESUVIUS.
344
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MOUNT VESUVIUS
IS THE ONLY ACTIVE VOLCANO
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ON MAINLAND EUROPE.
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00:18:35,014 --> 00:18:38,918
PEOPLE COME TO SEE IT
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
347
00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:40,420
DURING RECORDED HISTORY,
348
00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:44,191
VESUVIUS HAS BEEN KNOWN
TO ERUPT HUNDREDS OF TIMES.
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THE MOST FAMOUS ERUPTION
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BURIED THE PROSPEROUS
ROMAN TRADING CITY,
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POMPEII, IN 79 A.D.
352
00:18:52,765 --> 00:18:57,304
VESUVIUS IS STILL ACTIVE
AND COULD ERUPT AT ANY TIME.
353
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FARTHER SOUTH ON SICILY,
AT THE TOE OF THE BOOT,
354
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IS THE MASSIVE MOUNT ETNA.
355
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,914
LIKE MOUNT VESUVIUS,
356
00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:11,984
ETNA IS A VERY ACTIVE AND
FAMOUSLY DESTRUCTIVE VOLCANO.
357
00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:15,988
FOR YEARS,
GEOLOGISTS COULD NOT EXPLAIN
358
00:19:16,022 --> 00:19:19,426
WHAT THE TWO VOLCANOES
WERE DOING HERE.
359
00:19:19,459 --> 00:19:21,561
BUT AROUND THE TIME
PLATE TECTONICS THEORY
360
00:19:21,594 --> 00:19:24,731
WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE 1960s,
361
00:19:24,764 --> 00:19:27,534
GEOLOGISTS CAME
TO A SURPRISING CONCLUSION
362
00:19:27,567 --> 00:19:31,238
ABOUT MOUNT VESUVIUS
AND MOUNT ETNA.
363
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THEY ARE VOLCANOES
AND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
364
00:19:33,573 --> 00:19:36,343
FROM THE APENNINES
OR THE ALPS.
365
00:19:36,376 --> 00:19:39,712
BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY CAUSED
BY THE SAME PROCESS,
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SUBDUCTION.
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AS THE SUBDUCTING PLATE
SINKS DOWN,
368
00:19:45,452 --> 00:19:49,188
IT SLIDES UNDER THE OTHER
AND HEATS UP.
369
00:19:49,222 --> 00:19:52,024
THIS HEATED MATERIAL
BECOMES MAGMA,
370
00:19:52,058 --> 00:19:54,093
WHICH RISES UP
THROUGH THE TOP PLATE
371
00:19:54,126 --> 00:19:57,997
TO BUILD ACTIVE VOLCANOES.
372
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THE ITALIAN VOLCANOES
FIT THIS PICTURE WELL.
373
00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:05,004
IN FACT, GEOLOGISTS COULD TRACE
A VOLCANIC ARC
374
00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:07,874
THAT FOLLOWS
THE SUBDUCTING PLATE.
375
00:20:07,907 --> 00:20:09,175
STARTING AROUND ROME,
376
00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:11,444
WHERE THERE ARE
SOME DORMANT VOLCANOES,
377
00:20:11,478 --> 00:20:13,713
AND CURVING DOWN PAST STROMBOLI
378
00:20:13,746 --> 00:20:16,549
AND THE VOLCANIC AEOLIAN ISLANDS
379
00:20:16,583 --> 00:20:20,487
AND CONTINUING PAST ETNA
FARTHER SOUTH.
380
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,523
BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING PECULIAR
ABOUT ETNA.
381
00:20:23,556 --> 00:20:27,360
[all speaking Italian]
382
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ON A BRIGHT JUNE MORNING,
383
00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:32,231
NANO SEEBER AND
GRADUATE STUDENT MARGARET REITZ
384
00:20:32,265 --> 00:20:33,966
HAVE COME DOWN FROM CALABRIA
385
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,637
TO GET TO THE BOTTOM
OF THIS PECULIAR FEATURE.
386
00:20:37,670 --> 00:20:39,372
- [speaking Italian]
387
00:20:39,406 --> 00:20:41,274
- YEAH, THERE ARE--
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF FAULTS.
388
00:20:41,308 --> 00:20:45,211
ACTUALLY WE'VE GOT A NORTH,
NORTHEAST TREND
389
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,213
FROM THE STRAIT OF MESSINA.
390
00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:48,781
narrator:
ETNA'S ERUPTIONS CONTAIN
391
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A RARELY SEEN MIXTURE
OF LAVA AND ASH.
392
00:20:52,885 --> 00:20:56,956
USUALLY, A VOLCANO PRODUCES
ONE OR THE OTHER.
393
00:20:56,989 --> 00:21:01,394
WHY DOES ETNA PRODUCE BOTH?
394
00:21:01,428 --> 00:21:04,997
NANO AND MEG HAVE
A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR FINDING OUT,
395
00:21:05,031 --> 00:21:08,568
BUT THEY MOST GET
THE PERFECT LAVA SAMPLE.
396
00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:10,737
THEY HAVE TO WORK FAST.
397
00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:13,239
THE VOLCANO HAS BEEN
ERUPTING FREQUENTLY,
398
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:16,108
AND THE SCIENTISTS ARE SEIZING
THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY
399
00:21:16,142 --> 00:21:18,978
TO FIND A SAMPLE
BEFORE IT ERUPTS AGAIN.
400
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,017
THE GOING IS DIFFICULT
AND EVEN DANGEROUS.
401
00:21:27,587 --> 00:21:31,057
LEADING THE WAY IS BORIS BEHNCKE
OF THE I.N.G.V.,
402
00:21:31,090 --> 00:21:36,162
ITALY'S NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF GEOPHYSICS AND VULCANOLOGY.
403
00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:41,401
- A PART OF THIS VENT
ERUPTED ON THE TENTH OF MAY.
404
00:21:41,434 --> 00:21:44,637
narrator: BORIS KNOWS ETNA
AS WELL AS ANYONE ALIVE.
405
00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:49,876
- THE MOUNTAIN IS QUITE
A LARGE VOLCANO
406
00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:52,812
AND ALSO ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE
VOLCANOES ON EARTH.
407
00:21:52,845 --> 00:21:57,016
IT'S CURRENTLY
3,330 METERS TALL.
408
00:21:57,049 --> 00:21:59,318
THAT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS
THAN 11,000 FEET.
409
00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:03,022
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE
VOLCANOES ON EARTH,
410
00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:07,394
MAYBE THE SECOND MOST ACTIVE
AFTER KILAUEA ON HAWAII.
411
00:22:07,427 --> 00:22:09,462
- IT'S ONE
OF THE MOST ACTIVE VOLCANOES
412
00:22:09,496 --> 00:22:11,230
ON THE PLANET.
413
00:22:11,263 --> 00:22:13,666
AND IT'S VERY YOUNG, ACTUALLY.
414
00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:17,236
IT'S ONLY
HALF A MILLION YEARS OLD.
415
00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:19,806
narrator: HOW IT GOT
SO BIG SO FAST
416
00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:22,809
IS PART OF THE RIDDLE OF ETNA.
417
00:22:22,842 --> 00:22:27,680
HOW DID SO MUCH LAVA
ACCUMULATE SO QUICKLY?
418
00:22:27,714 --> 00:22:31,684
- ETNA SITS IN A PLACE
WHERE THERE ARE LOTS OF FAULTS
419
00:22:31,718 --> 00:22:35,154
AND CRACKS RUNNING THROUGH
THE CRUST OF THIS PLANET.
420
00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:36,423
IN THIS VERY AREA,
421
00:22:36,456 --> 00:22:40,259
MANY OF THESE FAULT SYSTEMS
INTERSECT IN THAT PLACE.
422
00:22:40,292 --> 00:22:43,930
SO IT'S A PLACE
OF PARTICULAR INSTABILITY,
423
00:22:43,963 --> 00:22:45,297
AND THUS IT IS MUCH EASIER
424
00:22:45,331 --> 00:22:48,401
FOR THE MAGMA TO COME IN
THAT PLACE.
425
00:22:48,435 --> 00:22:51,037
THERE SEEMS TO BE
NO OTHER VOLCANOES ON EARTH
426
00:22:51,070 --> 00:22:55,241
WHERE WE HAVE A SIMILAR
GEODYNAMIC SITUATION.
427
00:22:55,274 --> 00:22:57,610
- THAT LOOKS GOOD.
428
00:22:57,644 --> 00:22:59,345
BEAUTIFUL.
429
00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:00,780
- NOW WE CAN BREAK
THAT DOWN FURTHER.
430
00:23:00,813 --> 00:23:02,114
- YEAH, YEAH.
431
00:23:02,148 --> 00:23:04,250
narrator: FINALLY THE TEAM
FINDS THE PERFECT SAMPLE.
432
00:23:04,283 --> 00:23:05,952
- YUP.
433
00:23:05,985 --> 00:23:07,353
THERE.
- IT'S HARD ROCK.
434
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,456
narrator: THEY WILL TAKE IT
TO THE LAB FOR ANALYSIS
435
00:23:09,489 --> 00:23:14,093
AND FIND OUT THAT, INDEED,
ETNA'S LAVA IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
436
00:23:15,462 --> 00:23:18,531
IT OFTEN COMES
FROM VERY DEEP IN THE EARTH,
437
00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:22,635
WORKING ITS WAY UP
THROUGH CRACKS.
438
00:23:22,669 --> 00:23:26,038
NANO'S TEAM TIME
THEIR EXPEDITION PERFECTLY.
439
00:23:26,072 --> 00:23:29,375
SHORTLY AFTER THEIR CLIMB,
ETNA EXPLODED.
440
00:23:33,946 --> 00:23:35,982
IT'S BECAUSE ETNA IS SO ACTIVE
441
00:23:36,015 --> 00:23:38,150
THAT A HUGE NETWORK
OF SEISMIC STATIONS,
442
00:23:38,184 --> 00:23:40,386
GAS-MONITORING DEVICES,
443
00:23:40,419 --> 00:23:43,122
AND OTHER HIGH-TECH
MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
444
00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:47,326
HAS BEEN SET UP TO WARN
OF IMPENDING ERUPTIONS.
445
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:48,995
THIS WARNING SYSTEM,
446
00:23:49,028 --> 00:23:50,963
ONE OF THE WORLD'S
MOST ADVANCED,
447
00:23:50,997 --> 00:23:54,967
KEEPS THE MILLION PEOPLE
LIVING CLOSE BY SAFER.
448
00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:57,637
THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE
LIVING HERE BECAUSE,
449
00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,071
AS IT TURNS OUT,
450
00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:04,076
THERE ARE MULTIPLE ADVANTAGES
TO LIVING ON A VOLCANO.
451
00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:08,347
- THERE ARE LOTS OF BENEFITS
TO LIFE ON A VOLCANO
452
00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:09,949
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT
VERY FERTILE SOILS
453
00:24:09,982 --> 00:24:12,919
DUE TO THE WEALTH OF MINERALS
IN THE VOLCANIC PRODUCT,
454
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:14,987
ESPECIALLY IN THE ASH.
455
00:24:15,021 --> 00:24:16,556
AND EVERYTHING
THAT GROWS ON ETNA
456
00:24:16,589 --> 00:24:20,126
IS A LITTLE BIT BIGGER
AND A LITTLE BIT MORE TASTY.
457
00:24:21,661 --> 00:24:24,564
THERE ARE IMPORTANT RESOURCES
LIKE TOURISM.
458
00:24:24,597 --> 00:24:27,867
THEN THE VOLCANO PROVIDES
BUILDING MATERIAL
459
00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:31,270
BECAUSE LAVA IS VERY
RESISTANT ROCK,
460
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,906
MUCH BETTER THAN CONCRETE.
461
00:24:33,940 --> 00:24:35,775
AND FINALLY, ALSO,
462
00:24:35,808 --> 00:24:39,045
THE VOLCANO STORES
INCREDIBLE QUANTITIES OF WATER
463
00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:41,313
BECAUSE IT'S ALL POROUS ROCK,
464
00:24:41,347 --> 00:24:43,583
AND THAT IS CERTAINLY
AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT
465
00:24:43,616 --> 00:24:45,151
IN A PLACE LIKE SICILY
466
00:24:45,184 --> 00:24:49,221
WHERE THERE ARE ELSEWHERE
PROBLEMS WITH DROUGHT.
467
00:24:49,255 --> 00:24:51,257
IF THE SOUTHEAST QUAKE
ERUPTS AGAIN,
468
00:24:51,290 --> 00:24:52,692
IT'LL THROW OUT
A LOT OF OLD MATERIAL.
469
00:24:52,725 --> 00:24:54,360
narrator:
AS THESE SCIENTISTS LEARN MORE
470
00:24:54,393 --> 00:24:56,663
ABOUT MOUNT ETNA AND VOLCANOES,
471
00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:58,297
THEY'RE ALSO GETTING INSIGHTS
472
00:24:58,330 --> 00:25:01,300
INTO AN INTIMATELY RELATED
GEOLOGIC PROCESS
473
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:05,071
ALSO CAUSED BY PLATE MOVEMENTS
AND SUBDUCTION:
474
00:25:05,104 --> 00:25:08,140
EARTHQUAKES.
475
00:25:08,174 --> 00:25:09,909
PEOPLE HERE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN
476
00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:13,112
THE MASSIVE
MESSINA EARTHQUAKE OF 1908,
477
00:25:13,145 --> 00:25:15,081
WHICH CAUSED
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION
478
00:25:15,114 --> 00:25:19,118
IN BOTH SICILY AND CALABRIA.
479
00:25:19,151 --> 00:25:21,220
- THERE'S BEEN
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKES
480
00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:22,555
IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
481
00:25:22,589 --> 00:25:25,725
AND UNDERSTANDING
HOW CALABRIA WORKS TECTONICALLY
482
00:25:25,758 --> 00:25:27,326
IS GONNA HELP TO UNDERSTAND
483
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,063
WHAT KIND OF EARTHQUAKES
WE CAN EXPECT.
484
00:25:31,097 --> 00:25:34,066
narrator: THE PEOPLE OF CALABRIA
AND THE REST OF SOUTHERN ITALY
485
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,236
ARE WELL AWARE
THAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
486
00:25:37,269 --> 00:25:41,674
ARE THE GEOLOGIC SIGNATURES
OF THEIR LAND.
487
00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:45,578
BOTH ARE DRIVEN BY THE CRUSHING
TECTONIC FORCE OF SUBDUCTION.
488
00:25:47,146 --> 00:25:51,183
BUT IS SUBDUCTION AT WORK
FARTHER TO THE NORTH?
489
00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:54,954
IS IT A MAJOR FORCE THERE?
490
00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:56,488
- ENTIRE BLOCKS
OF BUILDINGS COLLAPSED
491
00:25:56,522 --> 00:25:58,524
AS A POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE
STRUCK CENTRAL ITALY
492
00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:00,059
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
493
00:26:00,092 --> 00:26:01,360
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS
494
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:03,162
THE QUAKE MEASURED 6.3
ON THE RICHTER SCALE.
495
00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:05,297
narrator: IN 2009,
A LARGE EARTHQUAKE
496
00:26:05,331 --> 00:26:08,701
STRUCK THE CENTRAL
ITALIAN TOWN OF L'AQUILA,
497
00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:12,138
KILLING MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE.
498
00:26:12,171 --> 00:26:15,608
ABOUT 100 MILES AWAY
IN THE REGION OF UMBRIA,
499
00:26:15,642 --> 00:26:19,478
THE 13TH CENTURY BASILICA
OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
500
00:26:19,511 --> 00:26:20,913
WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED
501
00:26:20,947 --> 00:26:22,615
AND FOUR PEOPLE PERISHED
502
00:26:22,649 --> 00:26:26,953
WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE STRUCK
IN 1997.
503
00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:33,259
OBVIOUSLY THE EARTH'S CRUST
IS VERY ACTIVE IN CENTRAL ITALY.
504
00:26:34,727 --> 00:26:37,229
REGIONS LIKE UMBRIA AND TUSCANY
505
00:26:37,263 --> 00:26:40,800
ARE FREQUENTLY JOLTED
BY EARTHQUAKES.
506
00:26:40,833 --> 00:26:45,237
BUT UNLIKE THE SOUTH,
CENTRAL ITALY HAS NO VOLCANOES.
507
00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:49,709
THE LINE OF SUBDUCTION-DRIVEN
VOLCANOES ENDS NORTH OF ROME.
508
00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,880
IS A PROCESS
OTHER THAN SUBDUCTION
509
00:26:53,913 --> 00:26:55,214
BUILDING THE MOUNTAINS
510
00:26:55,247 --> 00:26:59,185
AND TRIGGERING THE EARTHQUAKES
IN CENTRAL ITALY?
511
00:26:59,218 --> 00:27:02,288
UNTIL RECENTLY, GEOLOGISTS
THOUGHT THAT SUBDUCTION
512
00:27:02,321 --> 00:27:05,457
WAS LONG DEAD
TO THE NORTH OF ROME.
513
00:27:05,491 --> 00:27:07,593
APPARENTLY, ANOTHER PROCESS,
514
00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:09,829
THE STRETCHING
OF THE EARTH'S CRUST,
515
00:27:09,862 --> 00:27:11,530
HAD TAKEN OVER--
516
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,300
OR SO THEY THOUGHT.
517
00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:17,569
BUT EARTH SCIENTISTS WORKING
IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ITALY
518
00:27:17,603 --> 00:27:20,740
HAVE BEGUN TO WONDER.
519
00:27:20,773 --> 00:27:22,474
ONE OF THEM IS MARK BRANDON,
520
00:27:22,508 --> 00:27:26,946
AN OLD FRIEND AND ADVISOR
OF FRANK PAZZAGLIA.
521
00:27:26,979 --> 00:27:30,082
THEY ARE MEETING
IN THE MEDIEVAL TOWN OF ELCITO,
522
00:27:30,116 --> 00:27:33,019
FROM WHICH THEY CAN SEE
A LONG WAY OFF.
523
00:27:33,052 --> 00:27:35,688
- SO WE'RE LOOKING ALONG
THE ENTIRE ADRIATIC COAST HERE.
524
00:27:35,722 --> 00:27:38,725
- EXACTLY, WE'RE LOOKING OUT
OVER THE TOP OF CINGOLI RIDGE,
525
00:27:38,758 --> 00:27:40,359
AND FROM CINGOLI RIDGE,
526
00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:42,628
THERE'S ONLY ONE MORE
LIMESTONE RIDGE.
527
00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:45,264
narrator: MARK HAS BEEN
TRAVELING AROUND TUSCANY,
528
00:27:45,297 --> 00:27:47,900
WHERE SIGNS OF THE STRETCHING
OF THE EARTH'S CRUST
529
00:27:47,934 --> 00:27:51,370
ARE MUCH IN EVIDENCE
TO GEOLOGISTS.
530
00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:54,306
- WE SEE THE ROCKS
AT THE SURFACE PULLING APART.
531
00:27:54,340 --> 00:27:57,543
AND A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT
IS THAT IF WE GO
532
00:27:57,576 --> 00:27:59,278
INTO VARIOUS PARTS
OF THE LANDSCAPE
533
00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:00,713
LIKE AROUND FLORENCE,
534
00:28:00,747 --> 00:28:03,449
WHAT WE SEE ARE THERE ARE
BIG GRABENS OR STRETCH MARKS
535
00:28:03,482 --> 00:28:06,786
WHERE THE EARTH IS PULLING APART
AT THE SURFACE.
536
00:28:06,819 --> 00:28:08,921
IN FACT, MANY
OF THE EARTHQUAKES WE SEE
537
00:28:08,955 --> 00:28:12,491
ARE DUE TO A LARGE PART
OF THE CRUST AT THE SURFACE
538
00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:15,194
BEING STRETCHED APART.
539
00:28:15,227 --> 00:28:18,497
narrator: THE LOVELY LANDSCAPE
OF TUSCANY NEAR FLORENCE
540
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:20,332
IS A FAMILIAR ONE,
541
00:28:20,366 --> 00:28:24,036
OFTEN USED AS THE BACKGROUND
IN RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS.
542
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:28,407
ONLY A CLOSER LOOK BY GEOLOGISTS
REVEALS THE WRENCHING APART
543
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,709
OF THIS GENTLE LANDSCAPE.
544
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,322
- SO, I MEAN, WE THINK
MASSA COULD GO UNDER HERE.
545
00:28:43,355 --> 00:28:45,457
narrator: TRAVELING ONWARD
FROM CENTRAL ITALY
546
00:28:45,491 --> 00:28:47,659
AND HEADING TO THE NORTHWEST,
547
00:28:47,693 --> 00:28:50,963
MARK BRANDON
AND HIS COLLEAGUE DARRYL COWEN
548
00:28:50,997 --> 00:28:53,499
CAN TELL THAT MUCH MORE
THAN STRETCHING
549
00:28:53,532 --> 00:28:57,770
IS OPERATING
TO BUILD ITALY'S MOUNTAINS.
550
00:28:57,804 --> 00:29:00,807
ONE PLACE WHERE THEY'RE
HOPING TO FIND THE MISSING LINK
551
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,375
IS IN MICHELANGELO'S
MARBLE QUARRIES
552
00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:05,912
IN THE ALPI APUANE MOUNTAINS.
553
00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:10,116
WAITING FOR HIS
AMERICAN COLLEAGUES
554
00:29:10,149 --> 00:29:11,717
AT THE STATION IN CARRARA
555
00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:15,454
IS GIANCARLO MOLLI
WITH STUDENT GABRIEL CAZALLI.
556
00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:16,588
- HOW ARE YOU?
- CIAO.
557
00:29:16,622 --> 00:29:18,190
narrator:
GIANCARLO IS TAKING THE GROUP
558
00:29:18,224 --> 00:29:20,559
TO HIS RUGGED,
MOUNTAINOUS FIELD AREA.
559
00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:26,866
GEOLOGISTS HAVE WORKED OUT
THAT THE FAMOUS MARBLES HERE
560
00:29:26,899 --> 00:29:30,669
HAVE RISEN UP VERY QUICKLY
FROM DEEP IN THE EARTH.
561
00:29:30,702 --> 00:29:34,073
AND THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD'VE
RISEN UP SO RAPIDLY
562
00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:37,676
IS IF THE ROCKS AROUND THEM
WERE BEING STRETCHED APART
563
00:29:37,709 --> 00:29:41,213
BY A VERY POWERFUL
AND MYSTERIOUS FORCE.
564
00:29:43,883 --> 00:29:47,653
THAT STRETCHING WOULD HAVE
OPENED A GAP FOR THE ALPI APUANE
565
00:29:47,686 --> 00:29:51,824
TO RISE QUICKLY TO THE SURFACE.
566
00:29:51,858 --> 00:29:55,327
- THE ALPI APUANE EXPOSES
THE DEEPEST METAMORPHIC ROCKS
567
00:29:55,361 --> 00:29:56,395
IN THE APENNINES.
568
00:29:56,428 --> 00:29:57,796
WHAT WE MEAN BY THIS,
569
00:29:57,830 --> 00:30:00,232
THESE ARE ROCKS THAT HAVE BEEN
TAKEN DEEP INTO THE CRUST
570
00:30:00,266 --> 00:30:01,333
AND HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED
571
00:30:01,367 --> 00:30:03,903
BY HIGH TEMPERATURES
AND HIGH PRESSURES
572
00:30:03,936 --> 00:30:06,805
INTO ENTIRELY NEW ROCKS.
573
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,607
AND FOR MANY YEARS NOW,
574
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,410
THERE'S BEEN THE RECOGNITION
THAT THE APUANE AREA
575
00:30:11,443 --> 00:30:13,379
AND THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS
THAT UNDERLIE IT
576
00:30:13,412 --> 00:30:14,981
HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP
TO THE SURFACE
577
00:30:15,014 --> 00:30:18,150
BY THIS OVERALL
STRETCHING PROCESS.
578
00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:22,088
SO IT'S A MANIFESTATION OF THIS
EXTENSION OR STRETCHING PROCESS,
579
00:30:22,121 --> 00:30:25,424
THE DEEPEST OR MOST PRONOUNCED
MANIFESTATION OF THAT.
580
00:30:30,863 --> 00:30:32,231
narrator:
WITH THE FAMOUS MARBLES
581
00:30:32,264 --> 00:30:34,500
OF THE ALPI APUANE
FRESH IN HIS MIND,
582
00:30:34,533 --> 00:30:35,902
MARK IS IMPRESSED
583
00:30:35,935 --> 00:30:39,338
BY WHAT THE STRETCHING
OF THE EARTH'S CRUST CAN DO.
584
00:30:39,371 --> 00:30:43,075
BUT WHAT IS THE FORCE BEHIND
THE RAPID STRETCHING APART
585
00:30:43,109 --> 00:30:47,446
OF TONS OF ROCK
IN THE ALPI APUANE?
586
00:30:47,479 --> 00:30:50,216
AND WHY IS IT
THAT THE EARTH'S CRUST IN ITALY
587
00:30:50,249 --> 00:30:52,784
IS BEING PULLED APART
IN SOME AREAS
588
00:30:52,818 --> 00:30:54,320
WHILE AT THE SAME TIME,
589
00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:58,390
IT'S BEING SQUEEZED UP
IN OTHER AREAS?
590
00:31:07,499 --> 00:31:11,737
FORTUNATELY, MARK HAS STUDIED
MOUNTAIN BELTS AROUND THE WORLD,
591
00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:15,141
AND ONE THEORY HAS EMERGED
THAT MAKES SENSE TO HIM.
592
00:31:15,174 --> 00:31:18,710
IT'S CALLED ROLLBACK.
593
00:31:18,744 --> 00:31:20,046
IN THIS SCENARIO,
594
00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:23,182
THE APENNINES ARE BEING
SQUEEZED UP INTO MOUNTAINS
595
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:27,253
ABOVE THE DOWN-GOING
SUBDUCTING PLATE.
596
00:31:27,286 --> 00:31:30,322
MEANWHILE, THE SUBDUCTING PLATE
DRAWS BACKWARD
597
00:31:30,356 --> 00:31:33,559
AT THE POINT WHERE
IT CURVES DOWNWARD.
598
00:31:33,592 --> 00:31:37,829
THIS IS CALLED
ROLLBACK OF THE PLATE.
599
00:31:37,863 --> 00:31:39,331
AS IT ROLLS BACK,
600
00:31:39,365 --> 00:31:40,499
THE SUBDUCTING PLATE
601
00:31:40,532 --> 00:31:43,202
SUCKS THE COLLIDING PLATE
TOWARDS IT,
602
00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:45,972
STRETCHING IT APART.
603
00:31:46,005 --> 00:31:47,406
ON TOP OF THAT PLATE,
604
00:31:47,439 --> 00:31:51,043
THE CRUST ALSO
STRETCHES AND DEFORMS,
605
00:31:51,077 --> 00:31:55,181
RISING UP IN SOME PLACES
AND SINKING DOWN IN OTHERS,
606
00:31:55,214 --> 00:31:58,250
CREATING A LANDSCAPE
OF HILLS AND VALLEYS,
607
00:31:58,284 --> 00:32:01,120
AS IN TUSCANY.
608
00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:05,791
BUT ROLLBACK HAS BEEN
HARD TO PROVE,
609
00:32:05,824 --> 00:32:08,160
AND THERE ARE OTHER THEORIES
THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN
610
00:32:08,194 --> 00:32:11,197
THE OBSERVATIONS ON THE SURFACE.
611
00:32:11,230 --> 00:32:15,634
THIS DEBATE IS WHAT HAS BROUGHT
MARK BRANDON TO ITALY.
612
00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:17,169
- ITALY IS AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE
613
00:32:17,203 --> 00:32:20,973
TO STUDY THIS PROCESS
OF COLLISION OF PLATES
614
00:32:21,007 --> 00:32:24,443
AND OVERALL STRETCHING
AT THE SURFACE.
615
00:32:24,476 --> 00:32:27,079
WE SEE THIS GOING ON
IN DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN BELTS,
616
00:32:27,113 --> 00:32:30,682
SUCH AS THE HIMALAYA,
THE ANDES.
617
00:32:30,716 --> 00:32:34,586
WE ALSO SEE IT GOING ON
IN SUBMARINE SUBDUCTION ZONES,
618
00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:38,057
LIKE THE MARIANA
IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC.
619
00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:39,491
BUT MANY OF THOSE SETTINGS,
620
00:32:39,525 --> 00:32:41,760
EITHER THE PROCESS
HAS BEEN ARRESTED
621
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:43,795
OR IT'S DIFFICULT
TO STUDY DIRECTLY
622
00:32:43,829 --> 00:32:45,964
BECAUSE THE TOPOGRAPHY
IS TOO HIGH
623
00:32:45,998 --> 00:32:50,369
OR WE CAN'T GET DIRECTLY
TO THOSE AREAS.
624
00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:51,937
narrator:
THE ACCESSIBLE TOPOGRAPHY
625
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,407
OF ITALY'S APENNINES
WITH ITS NETWORK OF GOOD ROADS
626
00:32:55,441 --> 00:32:56,975
OFFERS ONE OF THE BEST HOPES
627
00:32:57,009 --> 00:33:01,213
OF SOLVING THIS IMPORTANT
GEOLOGIC MYSTERY.
628
00:33:01,247 --> 00:33:05,784
GEOLOGISTS GENERALLY AGREE
THAT THE COLLISION OF THE PLATES
629
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:09,355
FOLLOWED BY THE SUBDUCTION
OF THE ADRIA MICROPLATE
630
00:33:09,388 --> 00:33:14,026
PUSHED UP THE APENNINES
SOME 5 TO 10 MILLION YEARS AGO.
631
00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:17,996
BUT IN ONE PART OF THE APENNINES
AROUND THE CITY OF BOLOGNA,
632
00:33:18,030 --> 00:33:19,865
MANY GEOLOGISTS WERE CLAIMING
633
00:33:19,898 --> 00:33:22,634
THAT THE MOUNTAINS
WERE NOW DEAD;
634
00:33:22,668 --> 00:33:27,005
THEY WERE NO LONGER BEING
PUSHED UP BY SUBDUCTION.
635
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:29,975
IF THAT WERE TRUE,
THEN THE ROLLBACK THEORY,
636
00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:31,477
WHICH HINGED IN PART
637
00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:35,114
ON SUBDUCTION STILL BEING ACTIVE
IN NORTHERN ITALY,
638
00:33:35,147 --> 00:33:38,584
WAS ALSO DEAD.
639
00:33:38,617 --> 00:33:39,985
- 40,000 OR SOMETHING.
640
00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:41,153
AND RIGHT HERE IT SAYS THAT--
641
00:33:41,187 --> 00:33:43,055
- HEY, HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON?
642
00:33:43,089 --> 00:33:44,290
- WELL, SHE'S GOT THESE REALLY,
643
00:33:44,323 --> 00:33:46,158
REALLY INTERESTING OFFSETS
IN THE TERRACES.
644
00:33:46,192 --> 00:33:48,260
- YOU GUYS ARE WORRYING TOO MUCH
ABOUT THE GEOLOGY.
645
00:33:48,294 --> 00:33:51,297
TODAY'S--TODAY'S THE FEAST
OF SAN GIUSEPPE
646
00:33:51,330 --> 00:33:54,200
AND IT'S VERY--IT'S TRADITIONAL
IN MANY PARTS OF ITALY
647
00:33:54,233 --> 00:33:56,368
TO HAVE BREADS MADE
ON THE FEAST OF SAN GIUSEPPE.
648
00:33:56,402 --> 00:33:57,503
- BELLISSIMA.
649
00:33:57,536 --> 00:33:58,937
- FESTE DEL PAPA.
650
00:33:58,970 --> 00:34:00,572
AND THIS IS A SERPENTONI.
651
00:34:00,606 --> 00:34:01,840
WE STUFFED IT WITH APPLES.
652
00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:03,375
AND THIS IS JUST
A REGULAR BRAID BREAD.
653
00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:04,543
- DID YOU MAKE THAT TOO?
654
00:34:04,576 --> 00:34:06,445
narrator: FRANK AND MARK
HAVE ENLISTED EXPERTS
655
00:34:06,478 --> 00:34:08,614
FROM VARIOUS FIELDS
OF EARTH SCIENCE
656
00:34:08,647 --> 00:34:11,950
TO FIND OUT IF THE APENNINES
ARE STILL ALIVE OR NOT.
657
00:34:11,983 --> 00:34:13,385
- WE'RE DIPPING
TOWARDS THE BASE...
658
00:34:13,419 --> 00:34:15,954
narrator: THIS IS PERHAPS
THE BIGGEST GEOLOGICAL MYSTERY
659
00:34:15,987 --> 00:34:17,656
REMAINING IN ITALY
660
00:34:17,689 --> 00:34:21,160
AND SOLVING IT
WILL NOT BE EASY.
661
00:34:21,193 --> 00:34:23,262
THE SCIENTISTS ARE MEETING
TO STRATEGIZE
662
00:34:23,295 --> 00:34:26,698
AT THE GEOLOGIC OBSERVATORY
OF COLDIOGIOCO,
663
00:34:26,732 --> 00:34:31,470
A TINY VILLAGE
IN THE NORTHERN APENNINES.
664
00:34:31,503 --> 00:34:34,140
A NUMBER OF THE SCIENTISTS
ARE CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS
665
00:34:34,173 --> 00:34:35,641
AT THE EARTH'S SURFACE
666
00:34:35,674 --> 00:34:40,045
TO DETERMINE IF
IT'S LIFTING UP AND DEFORMING.
667
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:44,183
OTHERS ARE IMAGING
THE DEEP INTERIOR OF THE EARTH.
668
00:34:44,216 --> 00:34:47,119
STILL OTHERS ARE MAPPING
THE BENDS AND TURNS
669
00:34:47,153 --> 00:34:49,888
IN ROCK LAYERS
BROUGHT UP FROM FAR BELOW.
670
00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:53,659
- THAT IS THE PROBLEM
WITH THE...
671
00:34:53,692 --> 00:34:55,494
narrator: ONE MEMBER
OF THE COLLABORATION
672
00:34:55,527 --> 00:34:59,598
IS GEOLOGIST
VINCENZO PICOTTI.
673
00:34:59,631 --> 00:35:02,534
VINCENZO HAS BEEN WORKING
ON THE RENO RIVER
674
00:35:02,568 --> 00:35:07,005
AT A TOWN CALLED MARZABOTTO,
NOT FAR FROM BOLOGNA.
675
00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:10,676
HERE A NOVEL TECHNIQUE
HAS BEEN USED
676
00:35:10,709 --> 00:35:15,314
TO CALCULATE THE AGES
OF THE TERRACES ABOVE THE RIVER.
677
00:35:15,347 --> 00:35:16,915
ON TOP OF THESE TERRACES
678
00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:19,985
ARE ARTIFACTS
OF THE ANCIENT ETRUSCANS
679
00:35:20,018 --> 00:35:22,354
THAT ONCE LIVED HERE.
680
00:35:22,388 --> 00:35:24,556
ON ONE WIDE, FLAT RIVER TERRACE
681
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:28,460
ARE THE RUINS
OF AN ANCIENT ETRUSCAN TOWN.
682
00:35:28,494 --> 00:35:30,596
SINCE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
KNOW EXACTLY
683
00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:33,265
WHEN THE ETRUSCANS
LIVED ON THIS TERRACE,
684
00:35:33,299 --> 00:35:35,767
VINCENZO CAN USE
THAT DATE TO ESTABLISH
685
00:35:35,801 --> 00:35:38,937
THAT THE RIVER TERRACE
IS AT LEAST THAT OLD.
686
00:35:41,573 --> 00:35:42,708
THIS WILL HELP HIM SEE
687
00:35:42,741 --> 00:35:45,677
IF THE MOUNTAINS
ARE STILL GROWING.
688
00:35:45,711 --> 00:35:49,114
- THIS IS A VILLAGE
OF ETRUSCAN AGE.
689
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:53,785
AND THOSE WALLS WE CAN SEE NOW
690
00:35:53,819 --> 00:35:56,788
ARE THE FOUNDATIONS
OF THE HOUSES
691
00:35:56,822 --> 00:36:00,592
OF THIS HIGHLY-CIVILIZED PEOPLE.
692
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:03,429
THE AGE OF THIS VILLAGE
693
00:36:03,462 --> 00:36:07,833
IS MORE OR LESS 2,500 YEARS.
694
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,136
AND SO WE CAN HAVE A MINIMUM AGE
695
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:14,940
FOR THE RIVER TERRACE.
696
00:36:18,244 --> 00:36:21,313
narrator:
SOIL GEOMORPHOLOGIST MISSY EPPES
697
00:36:21,347 --> 00:36:23,715
IS USING A DIFFERENT TECHNIQUE.
698
00:36:23,749 --> 00:36:26,485
SHE IS ESTABLISHING
THE AGES OF RIVER TERRACES
699
00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:29,621
THAT MAY BE HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD
700
00:36:29,655 --> 00:36:33,825
BY LOOKING AT THE SOIL
ON TOP OF THEM.
701
00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:36,027
- SOILS WORK
MUCH LIKE PEOPLE WORK
702
00:36:36,061 --> 00:36:37,696
IN TERMS OF
THE OLDER THEY GET,
703
00:36:37,729 --> 00:36:39,164
THEY HAVE
CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS
704
00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:42,033
THAT ENABLE YOU
TO UNDERSTAND HOW OLD THEY ARE,
705
00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:44,703
JUST LIKE A MOM MIGHT
BE ABLE TO LOOK AT ANY CHILD
706
00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:47,673
AND KNOW THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW,
15 WEEKS OR A YEAR AND A HALF,
707
00:36:47,706 --> 00:36:49,641
OR, YOU KNOW, THREE YEARS,
708
00:36:49,675 --> 00:36:51,943
AND YOU USE THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF THAT CHILD
709
00:36:51,977 --> 00:36:54,145
TO SAY HOW OLD IT IS.
710
00:36:54,179 --> 00:36:55,547
WE DO THE SAME THING WITH SOILS.
711
00:36:55,581 --> 00:36:57,849
THE OLDER SOILS GET,
THE REDDER THEY GET,
712
00:36:57,883 --> 00:37:00,286
THE DEEPER THEY GET,
THE MORE CLAY THEY HAVE IN THEM.
713
00:37:00,319 --> 00:37:01,687
WELL, ACTUALLY, I MEAN--
714
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,255
SO THAT I CAN GO UP
TO AN OUTCROP
715
00:37:03,289 --> 00:37:06,325
AND LOOK AT A NICE EXPOSURE
OF A SOIL AND SAY,
716
00:37:06,358 --> 00:37:08,427
"YOU KNOW, THIS MUCH REDDENING,
THIS MUCH CLAY,
717
00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:10,462
"IT MUST BE 10,000 YEARS OLD.
718
00:37:10,496 --> 00:37:13,432
"THIS SOIL IS REALLY THICK.
IT HAS A LOT OF CLAY.
719
00:37:13,465 --> 00:37:16,101
IT MUST BE 100,000 YEARS OLD."
720
00:37:20,171 --> 00:37:22,574
THIS IS WHERE I WAS HAVING
ALL THAT TROUBLE.
721
00:37:22,608 --> 00:37:26,745
IF THIS WERE THE QT-6 DRAFT,
THEN THEY'RE BE A LOT OF OFFSET.
722
00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:28,414
SO IF WE COULD FIND
A SOIL RIGHT THERE,
723
00:37:28,447 --> 00:37:29,615
THEN WE WOULD REALLY KNOW.
724
00:37:29,648 --> 00:37:32,984
ONCE MISSY
AND GRADUATE STUDENT RYAN BEERMA
725
00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:35,421
FIND AGES
FOR THE RIVER TERRACES,
726
00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:38,824
THEY CAN LOOK TO SEE IF THERE
ARE TERRACES OF THE SAME AGE
727
00:37:38,857 --> 00:37:41,126
BUT OF DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS.
728
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:44,029
IF THEY FIND
THOSE MISMATCHED TERRACES,
729
00:37:44,062 --> 00:37:47,433
IT MEANS THE EARTH'S SURFACE
IS DEFORMING HERE.
730
00:37:47,466 --> 00:37:52,103
OR IN OTHER WORDS, THE APENNINES
ARE STILL ALIVE AND GROWING.
731
00:37:52,137 --> 00:37:53,639
- YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
- OKAY, WOW.
732
00:37:53,672 --> 00:37:55,574
narrator: MEANWHILE,
THE SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND
733
00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:58,043
YET ANOTHER WAY TO LEARN
FROM THE RIVERS
734
00:37:58,076 --> 00:38:02,848
IF THE MOUNTAINS ARE RISING
OR ARE NOW DEAD.
735
00:38:02,881 --> 00:38:06,418
- ONE VERY CRITICAL DATA SET
THAT WE ARE COLLECTING
736
00:38:06,452 --> 00:38:09,455
IS RELATED TO THE RATE
AT WHICH RIVERS
737
00:38:09,488 --> 00:38:11,189
ARE CARVING THEIR VALLEYS
738
00:38:11,222 --> 00:38:14,860
AND VERTICALLY INCISING
INTO THE APENNINES.
739
00:38:14,893 --> 00:38:18,330
BECAUSE THE RATE THAT RIVERS
INCISE INTO MOUNTAINS
740
00:38:18,364 --> 00:38:23,068
IS RELATED TO THE RATE
THAT THE ROCKS ARE COMING UP.
741
00:38:23,101 --> 00:38:26,405
narrator: THAT IS,
IF THEY ARE COMING UP.
742
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:32,811
WHILE FRANK IS WORKING ON
UNDERSTANDING VERTICAL MOTIONS,
743
00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:36,247
ELSEWHERE HORIZONTAL MOTIONS
ARE BEING MEASURED.
744
00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:41,887
IN THE TINY INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC
OF SAN MARINO,
745
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,790
SCIENTISTS ARE MEASURING
HOW THE EARTH'S TECTONIC PLATES
746
00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:47,659
ARE MOVING IN NORTHERN ITALY.
747
00:38:47,693 --> 00:38:50,061
- YOU CAN'T BE AFRAID OF HEIGHTS
AND RUN THIS NETWORK.
748
00:38:50,095 --> 00:38:51,162
- NO.
749
00:38:51,196 --> 00:38:53,131
narrator:
HERE GEODESIST RICK BENNETT
750
00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:54,500
AND HIS ITALIAN COLLEAGUES
751
00:38:54,533 --> 00:38:58,570
HAVE INSTALLED ONE
OF THEIR GPS ANTENNAS.
752
00:38:58,604 --> 00:39:00,906
- IN THIS PROJECT,
WE'RE INSTALLING ANTENNAS,
753
00:39:00,939 --> 00:39:02,240
SUCH AS THIS ONE,
754
00:39:02,273 --> 00:39:04,242
IN AS MANY LOCATIONS
AS WE CAN FIND
755
00:39:04,275 --> 00:39:05,844
THROUGHOUT NORTHERN ITALY.
756
00:39:05,877 --> 00:39:07,979
THE IDEA IS THAT
WE'LL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE
757
00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:09,848
THE MOTION OF ALL
OF THESE INSTRUMENTS.
758
00:39:09,881 --> 00:39:12,250
AND FROM THAT INFORMATION
WE'LL BE ABLE TO LEARN
759
00:39:12,283 --> 00:39:14,786
ABOUT HOW THE ITALIAN PENINSULA
760
00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:16,855
IS RESPONDING
TO THE RELATIVE MOTION
761
00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:20,058
BETWEEN THE AFRICA PLATE,
THE EURASIA PLATE,
762
00:39:20,091 --> 00:39:23,094
AND THE ADRIATIC PLATE.
763
00:39:23,128 --> 00:39:24,896
narrator: IN THE COURSE
OF A YEAR OR TWO,
764
00:39:24,930 --> 00:39:27,833
THE GPS ANTENNAS
SHOULD DETECT MOVEMENT,
765
00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:29,535
EVEN A TINY MOVEMENT,
766
00:39:29,568 --> 00:39:31,437
IF THE MOUNTAINS
OF NORTHERN ITALY
767
00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:34,440
ARE STILL GROWING
AND PULLING APART.
768
00:39:34,473 --> 00:39:38,143
IT MAY EVEN BE POSSIBLE TO TELL
IF THE ENTIRE PENINSULA,
769
00:39:38,176 --> 00:39:41,179
THE BOOT,
IS STILL SWINGING BACK,
770
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,415
GETTING READY TO KICK.
771
00:39:43,449 --> 00:39:46,251
- SHALL WE TRY?
- TRY, YEAH, SURE.
772
00:39:46,284 --> 00:39:47,819
- JUST TAKE UP.
773
00:39:47,853 --> 00:39:50,121
narrator: BUT IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO FIND THE BEST SPOT
774
00:39:50,155 --> 00:39:52,524
TO INSTALL THESE ANTENNAS.
775
00:39:52,558 --> 00:39:54,560
FORTUNATELY FOR THIS ONE,
776
00:39:54,593 --> 00:39:56,428
A COLLEAGUE HAS VOLUNTEERED
HIS ROOF.
777
00:39:56,462 --> 00:39:59,465
- SURVEY ANTENNA, SEE?
778
00:39:59,498 --> 00:40:01,867
- IT'S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT
TO FIND GOOD LOCATIONS
779
00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:03,802
TO PUT THESE INSTRUMENTS.
780
00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:05,671
THEY REQUIRE SKY VISIBILITY
781
00:40:05,704 --> 00:40:08,173
SO THAT THEY CAN
ACTUALLY SEE THE SATELLITES.
782
00:40:08,206 --> 00:40:11,276
THEY REQUIRE SOLID BEDROCK
SO THAT WE CAN BE CONFIDENT
783
00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:14,713
THAT THEY'RE FIRMLY ATTACHED
TO THE EARTH'S SURFACE.
784
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:17,148
AND THERE ARE NOT MANY PLACES
IN NORTHERN ITALY
785
00:40:17,182 --> 00:40:20,418
WITH THOSE CHARACTERISTICS.
786
00:40:20,452 --> 00:40:24,189
SO WE'VE HAD TO RESORT TO SOME
RATHER UNCONVENTIONAL WAYS
787
00:40:24,222 --> 00:40:27,826
OF ATTACHING THE ANTENNAS
TO THE EARTH.
788
00:40:27,859 --> 00:40:29,127
IN SOME INSTANCES,
789
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,263
WE'VE ACTUALLY PUT THE ANTENNAS
ON ANCIENT CASTLES
790
00:40:32,297 --> 00:40:35,534
THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND
FOR 800 YEARS OR SO
791
00:40:35,567 --> 00:40:39,437
WHICH ARE NOW POSSIBLY PART
OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE.
792
00:40:49,147 --> 00:40:50,716
narrator:
ALL OF THESE GEOLOGIC STUDIES
793
00:40:50,749 --> 00:40:53,985
GENERATE HUGE AMOUNTS OF DATA.
794
00:40:54,019 --> 00:40:56,021
MOST OF IT IS A PILE OF NUMBERS
795
00:40:56,054 --> 00:40:58,524
HIDDEN IN COMPUTERS
AND NEVER SEEN,
796
00:40:58,557 --> 00:41:01,426
EVEN BY THE SCIENTISTS
WORKING ON THEM.
797
00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:02,728
BUT THAT DATA WILL FORM
798
00:41:02,761 --> 00:41:07,032
THE BASIS OF IMPORTANT
NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
799
00:41:07,065 --> 00:41:10,468
AND OCCASIONALLY SOMETHING ELSE:
800
00:41:10,502 --> 00:41:11,469
MUSIC.
801
00:41:11,503 --> 00:41:14,606
[both speaking Italian]
802
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,609
AT COLDIOGIOCO,
SANDRO MONTANARI,
803
00:41:17,643 --> 00:41:20,278
THE DIRECTOR
OF THE GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY,
804
00:41:20,311 --> 00:41:22,413
HAS BUILT A RECORDING STUDIO
805
00:41:22,447 --> 00:41:26,852
WITH THE HELP OF COMPOSER
GABRIELE ROSSETTI.
806
00:41:26,885 --> 00:41:29,588
THE TWO COLLEAGUES
ARE TAKING GEOLOGIC DATA
807
00:41:29,621 --> 00:41:34,425
AND TURNING THEM
INTO NOTES AND MUSIC.
808
00:41:34,459 --> 00:41:36,695
ONE OF THEIR COMPOSITIONS
IS BASED ON DATA
809
00:41:36,728 --> 00:41:39,931
FROM A WORLD-SHATTERING EVENT
DISCOVERED IN SOME ROCKS
810
00:41:39,965 --> 00:41:42,634
NOT FAR FROM COLDIOGIOCO.
811
00:41:42,668 --> 00:41:47,372
HERE A THIN LAYER IN THE ROCKS
GAVE SCIENTISTS THE FIRST CLUE
812
00:41:47,405 --> 00:41:50,175
THAT IT WAS A GIANT METEOR
STRIKING THE EARTH
813
00:41:50,208 --> 00:41:52,911
THAT SPELLED THE END
FOR THE DINOSAURS.
814
00:41:57,082 --> 00:41:59,651
[both speaking Italian]
815
00:41:59,685 --> 00:42:03,421
TODAY SANDRO AND GABRIELE
ARE WORKING ON ANOTHER PIECE
816
00:42:03,454 --> 00:42:08,126
CALLED GOCCE DE TEMPO,
DROPS OF TIME.
817
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:13,098
- THIS IS OUR PLOTS
OF CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES.
818
00:42:13,131 --> 00:42:16,167
THEY'RE BEING TAKEN
FROM THE FRASASSI GORGE.
819
00:42:16,201 --> 00:42:17,969
AND THE VARIATION
OF THESE VALUES
820
00:42:18,003 --> 00:42:20,706
TELL US HOW THE ENVIRONMENT
WAS CHANGING THROUGH TIME
821
00:42:20,739 --> 00:42:24,409
FOR THE PAST 100,000 YEARS.
822
00:42:24,442 --> 00:42:27,779
narrator: THIS MUSIC REFLECTS
THE CHEMISTRY OF FORMATIONS
823
00:42:27,813 --> 00:42:30,582
IN A SERIES
OF MAGNIFICENT CAVES,
824
00:42:30,616 --> 00:42:34,419
THE FRASASSI CAVES.
825
00:42:34,452 --> 00:42:36,521
THESE CAVES ARE MADE
OF LIMESTONE
826
00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:39,257
WHICH WAS BORN
100 MILLION YEARS AGO
827
00:42:39,290 --> 00:42:42,060
IN THE TETHYS OCEAN.
828
00:42:42,093 --> 00:42:45,797
TINY DROPS OF WATER HAVE
DISSOLVED AWAY THE LIMESTONE
829
00:42:45,831 --> 00:42:50,268
TO SCULPT MORE THAN
100 CAVES AT FRASASSI.
830
00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:55,073
BESIDES BEING A WONDERFUL SOURCE
OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION,
831
00:42:55,106 --> 00:42:58,910
THE FRASASSI CAVES HOLD
IMPORTANT GEOLOGICAL CLUES
832
00:42:58,944 --> 00:43:02,413
ABOUT THE GROWTH
OF THE APENNINES.
833
00:43:02,447 --> 00:43:04,115
SANDRO MARIANI,
834
00:43:04,149 --> 00:43:05,951
WHO'S BEEN WORKING
WITH FRANK PAZZAGLIA
835
00:43:05,984 --> 00:43:07,518
AT THE MUSONE RIVER,
836
00:43:07,552 --> 00:43:10,822
IS AN ACCOMPLISHED
CAVE EXPLORER.
837
00:43:10,856 --> 00:43:13,992
HIS NICKNAME IS SPIDERMAN.
838
00:43:14,025 --> 00:43:16,461
SANDRO IS USING
A LEVELING INSTRUMENT
839
00:43:16,494 --> 00:43:20,565
TO SEE IF THE ROCK LAYERS
IN THE CAVE HAVE BEEN TILTED.
840
00:43:20,598 --> 00:43:23,068
TILTING WOULD MEAN THAT
THE ROCKS WERE BENT
841
00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:25,570
AS THE MOUNTAINS GREW.
842
00:43:25,603 --> 00:43:29,474
AND SURE ENOUGH, SANDRO FINDS
BENT ROCKS IN THE CAVES.
843
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:32,911
THIS IS EVIDENCE
THAT THE MOUNTAINS
844
00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:36,915
HAVE BEEN SLOWLY GROWING
THROUGH THE EONS.
845
00:43:41,286 --> 00:43:42,888
GOING DEEPER STILL,
846
00:43:42,921 --> 00:43:45,390
SCIENTISTS ARE INTERESTED
IN KNOWING WHAT'S HAPPENING
847
00:43:45,423 --> 00:43:48,827
FAR BELOW THE EARTH'S SURFACE.
848
00:43:48,860 --> 00:43:51,830
TO SEE MANY MILES
DOWN INTO THE EARTH,
849
00:43:51,863 --> 00:43:56,034
SEISMOLOGIST SILVIA PONDRELLI
AND JEFFREY PARK
850
00:43:56,067 --> 00:43:59,337
ARE INSTALLING SEISMIC
INSTRUMENTS IN THE MOUNTAINS.
851
00:44:02,373 --> 00:44:04,943
- I THINK THAT SEISMOLOGY
IS GOING TO BE PIVOTAL
852
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:07,445
IN DETERMINING
THE BEST EXPLANATION
853
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:09,480
FOR THE NORTHERN APENNINES
854
00:44:09,514 --> 00:44:11,817
BECAUSE IT'S SEISMOLOGY
THAT ALLOWS US
855
00:44:11,850 --> 00:44:14,285
TO SEE BENEATH THE SURFACE,
BENEATH THE CRUST,
856
00:44:14,319 --> 00:44:18,456
AND INTO THE MANTLE
WHERE THE ACTION IS.
857
00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:20,692
narrator:
THEIR BIGGEST QUESTION IS THIS:
858
00:44:20,726 --> 00:44:23,695
IS THE ADRIA MICROPLATE
STILL SUBDUCTING,
859
00:44:23,729 --> 00:44:26,597
CAUSING THE APENNINES TO GROW?
860
00:44:26,631 --> 00:44:29,100
OR ARE OTHER PROCESSES INVOLVED
861
00:44:29,134 --> 00:44:31,703
IN BUILDING THE APENNINES?
862
00:44:31,737 --> 00:44:36,007
JEFF AND SILVIA WILL USE
WAVES GENERATED BY EARTHQUAKES
863
00:44:36,041 --> 00:44:37,909
TO SEE IF THEY CAN
FIND THE ANSWER
864
00:44:37,943 --> 00:44:41,412
IN THE DEEPEST ROOTS
OF THE MOUNTAINS.
865
00:44:43,281 --> 00:44:45,751
WHILE SILVIA, JEFF,
AND THEIR COLLEAGUES
866
00:44:45,784 --> 00:44:47,652
WORK TO FIND OUT
WHETHER NORTHERN ITALY
867
00:44:47,685 --> 00:44:50,321
IS STILL ALIVE GEOLOGICALLY,
868
00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:53,892
IN THE SOUTH
THERE IS NO DOUBT.
869
00:44:53,925 --> 00:44:57,128
STRIKING EVIDENCE FOR THIS
IS FOUND AT THE ADRIATIC COAST
870
00:44:57,162 --> 00:45:00,698
IN AN AREA CALLED APULIA.
871
00:45:00,732 --> 00:45:03,568
HERE AT THE HEEL
OF THE ITALIAN BOOT,
872
00:45:03,601 --> 00:45:05,003
INSTEAD OF MOUNTAINS,
873
00:45:05,036 --> 00:45:09,207
THERE IS A MOSTLY FLAT
LEVEL COASTLINE.
874
00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:11,509
SEASIDE RESORT TOWNS
LIKE TRANI
875
00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:14,279
LINE THE LONG CURVING BAYS
OF THE COAST
876
00:45:14,312 --> 00:45:16,414
AND LOOK OUT UPON
THE GENTLE WAVES
877
00:45:16,447 --> 00:45:20,051
OF THE ADRIATIC SEA.
878
00:45:20,085 --> 00:45:21,352
DOTTING THE COUNTRYSIDE
879
00:45:21,386 --> 00:45:25,123
ARE ROUND STONE HUTS
CALLED TRULLI.
880
00:45:25,156 --> 00:45:27,258
THERE IS A CONCENTRATION
OF TRULLI
881
00:45:27,292 --> 00:45:29,828
IN THE TOWN OF ALBEROBELLO,
882
00:45:29,861 --> 00:45:34,365
A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE.
883
00:45:34,399 --> 00:45:37,668
THESE WHITEWASHED HUTS
ARE BUILT OF LIMESTONE,
884
00:45:37,702 --> 00:45:42,040
WHICH FORMS THE BEDROCK
OF THIS UNUSUAL PART OF ITALY.
885
00:45:43,608 --> 00:45:45,443
LIMESTONE HAS BEEN MORE
886
00:45:45,476 --> 00:45:48,780
THAN THE STUFF
OF BUILDING BLOCKS IN APULIA.
887
00:45:48,814 --> 00:45:50,481
IN THE TOWN OF MATERA,
888
00:45:50,515 --> 00:45:54,152
PEOPLE ONCE ACTUALLY LIVED
INSIDE THE LIMESTONE,
889
00:45:54,185 --> 00:45:55,386
CARVING THEIR DWELLINGS
890
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:59,557
INTO THE LIMESTONE CLIFFS
RUNNING BELOW THE CITY.
891
00:45:59,590 --> 00:46:02,727
THESE DWELLINGS,
DATING FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES,
892
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,796
ARE KNOWN AS SASSI.
893
00:46:07,232 --> 00:46:11,369
BUT WHY IS APULIA SO DIFFERENT
FROM MOUNTAINOUS CALABRIA?
894
00:46:12,804 --> 00:46:15,140
IT TURNS OUT THAT
IN THE COMPLEX GEOLOGY
895
00:46:15,173 --> 00:46:16,607
OF SOUTHERN ITALY,
896
00:46:16,641 --> 00:46:19,344
APULIA IS YET ANOTHER MICROPLATE
897
00:46:19,377 --> 00:46:22,280
THAT WAS ONCE A PART OF AFRICA.
898
00:46:23,648 --> 00:46:25,350
- ABOUT 10 MILLION YEARS AGO,
899
00:46:25,383 --> 00:46:27,318
CALABRIA AND SARDINIA
WERE TOGETHER,
900
00:46:27,352 --> 00:46:29,720
AND CALABRIA DECIDED
TO GO ALONE,
901
00:46:29,754 --> 00:46:34,425
SO IT TOOK OFF FROM SARDINIA
AND MOVED SOUTHEAST.
902
00:46:36,227 --> 00:46:40,731
AND IN DOING SO,
IT CREATED THE TYRRHENIAN SEA
903
00:46:40,765 --> 00:46:44,735
AND COLLIDED
WITH AN OLD PIECE OF AFRICA
904
00:46:44,769 --> 00:46:48,273
WHICH IS CALLED APULIA.
905
00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:51,042
narrator: ORIGINALLY
APULIA WAS UNDER THE SEA,
906
00:46:51,076 --> 00:46:54,913
A GENTLE SEA FLOOR
MADE OF LIMESTONE.
907
00:46:54,946 --> 00:46:57,182
IT WAS PUSHED UP ABOVE SEA LEVEL
908
00:46:57,215 --> 00:47:00,285
BY ITS COLLISION WITH CALABRIA.
909
00:47:00,318 --> 00:47:03,388
APULIA AND CALABRIA
SIT ON OPPOSITE SIDES
910
00:47:03,421 --> 00:47:06,657
OF THE GREAT SUBDUCTION ZONE
THAT CREATED ITALY
911
00:47:06,691 --> 00:47:10,761
WHERE THE AFRICAN
AND EUROPEAN PLATES COLLIDE.
912
00:47:10,795 --> 00:47:14,365
THE COLLISION ZONE SWEEPS RIGHT
THROUGH THE HEART OF SICILY.
913
00:47:16,868 --> 00:47:20,872
- SEE THERE, ANOTHER VOLCANIC...
914
00:47:20,906 --> 00:47:23,774
narrator: MARK BRANDON
AND HIS COLLEAGUE KARL WEGMANN
915
00:47:23,808 --> 00:47:27,545
HAVE COME DOWN TO SICILY TO SEE
IF THE SUBDUCTION ZONE HERE
916
00:47:27,578 --> 00:47:31,216
CAN TELL THEM SOMETHING
ABOUT SUBDUCTION IN THE NORTH.
917
00:47:31,249 --> 00:47:33,151
THEY ARE GUIDED
BY ONE OF THE LEADERS
918
00:47:33,184 --> 00:47:36,554
OF SICILIAN GEOLOGY,
FABIO LENTINI.
919
00:47:36,587 --> 00:47:38,723
- INTERESTING.
- YOU SEE HERE.
920
00:47:38,756 --> 00:47:40,225
- YEAH.
- OH, LOOK AT THOSE CORALS.
921
00:47:40,258 --> 00:47:41,993
- THESE ARE COLONIAL CORALS.
922
00:47:42,027 --> 00:47:44,495
[speaks Italian]
923
00:47:46,131 --> 00:47:47,865
narrator: THEY START
THEIR RECONNAISSANCE
924
00:47:47,899 --> 00:47:50,768
IN NORTHERN SICILY.
925
00:47:50,801 --> 00:47:54,639
THIS PART OF THE ISLAND
IS DEFINED BY MOUNTAINS.
926
00:47:54,672 --> 00:47:57,175
THEY HUG THE COAST
AND PROTECT ANCIENT CITIES
927
00:47:57,208 --> 00:48:01,646
LIKE CEFALU AND
THE SICILIAN CAPITAL PALERMO,
928
00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:06,151
ONCE THE GREATEST CITY
IN EUROPE.
929
00:48:06,184 --> 00:48:10,155
THE GEOLOGISTS STOP FREQUENTLY
TO STUDY THE LIMESTONE MOUNTAINS
930
00:48:10,188 --> 00:48:14,392
PUSHED UP BY THE POWER
OF SUBDUCTION.
931
00:48:14,425 --> 00:48:17,462
AS MARK AND HIS COLLEAGUES
REACH CENTRAL SICILY,
932
00:48:17,495 --> 00:48:19,230
THE MOUNTAINS THIN OUT,
933
00:48:19,264 --> 00:48:22,968
BECOMING ISOLATED SKY ISLANDS
TOPPED BY TOWNS
934
00:48:23,001 --> 00:48:26,637
LIKE ENNA AND IT'S MEDIEVAL
RIVAL ACROSS THE VALLEY,
935
00:48:26,671 --> 00:48:28,339
CALASCIBETTA.
936
00:48:28,373 --> 00:48:30,908
- I DON'T, UH--
ENNA IS THE PLACE.
937
00:48:30,942 --> 00:48:32,310
narrator:
A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH,
938
00:48:32,343 --> 00:48:35,246
THE LANDSCAPE FLATTENS
SUDDENLY.
939
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,315
THIS IS THE AFRICAN PLATE,
940
00:48:37,348 --> 00:48:41,419
AND HALF OF SICILY
SITS ON THIS PLATE.
941
00:48:41,452 --> 00:48:43,754
THE SOILS AND BEDROCK
OF SOUTHERN SICILY
942
00:48:43,788 --> 00:48:47,458
ARE BEST SEEN ALONG
ITS BREATHTAKING COAST.
943
00:48:47,492 --> 00:48:50,328
THEY COME IN SHADES OF WHITE.
944
00:48:50,361 --> 00:48:52,263
RAGGED LIMESTONE TERRACES MAKE
945
00:48:52,297 --> 00:48:56,001
FOR COZY ALCOVES
AND SECRET HARBORS.
946
00:48:56,034 --> 00:48:59,971
THIS ONE, NORTH OF SYRACUSE,
WAS ONCE A PIRATE HANGOUT.
947
00:49:01,739 --> 00:49:05,576
SALT AND GYPSUM MINES
ARE EVERYWHERE.
948
00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:08,713
THESE MINERALS SPEAK
OF A REMARKABLE TIME
949
00:49:08,746 --> 00:49:11,016
ABOUT 6 MILLION YEARS AGO
950
00:49:11,049 --> 00:49:15,520
WHEN TECTONIC FORCES BLOCKED
THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR.
951
00:49:16,854 --> 00:49:18,556
THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN SEA
952
00:49:18,589 --> 00:49:21,526
WAS CUT OFF FROM THE WATERS
OF THE ATLANTIC,
953
00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:23,128
LEADING TO WHAT
GEOLOGISTS CALLED
954
00:49:23,161 --> 00:49:26,564
THE MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS.
955
00:49:26,597 --> 00:49:30,168
- THE WHOLE MEDITERRANEAN
DRIED UP.
956
00:49:30,201 --> 00:49:34,739
IT WAS A BIG DEEP HOLE
WHERE WE NOW HAVE WATER.
957
00:49:34,772 --> 00:49:36,174
AND AS IT DRIED UP,
958
00:49:36,207 --> 00:49:39,044
ALL OF THE SALT AND OTHER
DISSOLVED CONSTITUENTS
959
00:49:39,077 --> 00:49:42,847
CAME OUT AS THICK,
EVAPORITE UNITS.
960
00:49:44,615 --> 00:49:48,719
narrator: THE DEPOSITS PILED UP
ON THE DRIED-OUT SEABED.
961
00:49:48,753 --> 00:49:51,622
LATER, OCEAN WATER FLOODED
BACK IN AGAIN
962
00:49:51,656 --> 00:49:54,125
AND COVERED THEM UP.
963
00:49:54,159 --> 00:49:58,729
NOW AS THE AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN
PLATES CONTINUE TO COLLIDE,
964
00:49:58,763 --> 00:50:02,967
THOSE SEABED DEPOSITS ARE
SLOWLY RISING OUT OF THE SEA.
965
00:50:04,535 --> 00:50:05,670
FARTHER SOUTH,
966
00:50:05,703 --> 00:50:07,838
AT THE SOUTHERNMOST PART
OF SICILY,
967
00:50:07,872 --> 00:50:10,408
STAND THE SPECTACULAR
GREEK TEMPLES
968
00:50:10,441 --> 00:50:13,010
OF AGRIGENTO.
969
00:50:13,044 --> 00:50:16,281
NEAR AGRIGENTO,
THE COASTAL ROCKS CLEARLY SHOW
970
00:50:16,314 --> 00:50:20,085
THE EFFECTS OF THE INCOMING
AFRICAN PLATE.
971
00:50:20,118 --> 00:50:22,687
THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT THIS PART OF ITALY
972
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:27,024
IS GEOLOGICALLY ALIVE
AND KICKING.
973
00:50:27,058 --> 00:50:30,261
- YOU CAN SEE THE OCEAN
OUT TO THE SOUTH OF US,
974
00:50:30,295 --> 00:50:33,431
AND FURTHER ON IS AFRICA--
IN FACT, TUNISIA.
975
00:50:33,464 --> 00:50:35,200
AND IN THIS AREA,
WE'RE LOOKING AT
976
00:50:35,233 --> 00:50:37,602
THE VERY BEGINNING
OF THE COLLISION
977
00:50:37,635 --> 00:50:41,972
BETWEEN ITALY AND AFRICA.
978
00:50:42,006 --> 00:50:43,308
AND IN THIS COLLISION ZONE,
979
00:50:43,341 --> 00:50:45,676
THERE ARE A BUNCH OF ROCKS
THAT ARE CRUMPLED UP.
980
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:49,214
YOU CAN SEE THEM FOLDED
IN THE BACKGROUND OVER HERE.
981
00:50:49,247 --> 00:50:53,151
AND THEY REPRESENT
MARINE SEDIMENTS IN PART
982
00:50:53,184 --> 00:50:56,887
THAT WERE ORIGINALLY
IN THE OCEAN TO THE SOUTH OF US
983
00:50:56,921 --> 00:50:58,289
AND HAVE BEEN SQUISHED
984
00:50:58,323 --> 00:51:02,260
AS ITALY HAS COME COLLIDING
WITH AFRICA.
985
00:51:08,133 --> 00:51:10,401
narrator:
TUNISIA IS CLOSE TO SICILY,
986
00:51:10,435 --> 00:51:13,471
ONLY 60 MILES AWAY.
987
00:51:13,504 --> 00:51:17,475
SO MARK AND KARL HAVE COME DOWN
TO EXPLORE THE COLLISION ZONE
988
00:51:17,508 --> 00:51:19,944
FROM THE AFRICAN SIDE.
989
00:51:22,780 --> 00:51:26,083
TUNISIAN GEOLOGIST SAMI KHOMSI
TAKES THEM ON A TOUR
990
00:51:26,117 --> 00:51:29,554
OF THE MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRYSIDE.
991
00:51:29,587 --> 00:51:33,124
GEOLOGISTS HAVE WORKED OUT THAT
THESE ROCKS IN NORTHERN TUNISIA
992
00:51:33,158 --> 00:51:37,795
ARE ACTUALLY AN EXTENSION
OF THE APENNINES.
993
00:51:37,828 --> 00:51:40,698
THEY WERE CREATED
BY THE SAME SUBDUCTION ZONE
994
00:51:40,731 --> 00:51:43,234
THAT CREATED ITALY.
995
00:51:43,268 --> 00:51:46,371
THE SUBDUCTION ZONE
CURVES DOWN FROM SICILY
996
00:51:46,404 --> 00:51:50,908
TO BUNCH UP THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
IN TUNISIA.
997
00:51:52,610 --> 00:51:55,646
THE ROCKS HERE ANNOUNCE
THE COLLISION SITUATION
998
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,082
LOUD AND CLEAR.
999
00:51:58,115 --> 00:52:02,487
THEY ARE TIGHTLY FOLDED
AND BROKEN UP IN MANY PLACES.
1000
00:52:04,655 --> 00:52:08,393
BUT IN NORTHERN ITALY,
IN FRANK PAZZAGLIA'S FIELD AREA,
1001
00:52:08,426 --> 00:52:10,561
THERE ARE NO SUCH OBVIOUS CLUES.
1002
00:52:10,595 --> 00:52:13,130
[both speaking Italian]
1003
00:52:14,532 --> 00:52:17,902
SO SCIENTISTS ARE PATIENTLY
PLYING THEIR TRADE,
1004
00:52:17,935 --> 00:52:19,504
GATHERING DATA.
1005
00:52:19,537 --> 00:52:21,839
- BRIAN, IF YOU NEED
A HAND GETTING THAT--THAT...
1006
00:52:21,872 --> 00:52:24,775
narrator: FINALLY A BREAKTHROUGH
COMES NEAR BOLOGNA.
1007
00:52:24,809 --> 00:52:26,844
- THEY'RE ALL FASTENED
DOWN THERE.
1008
00:52:26,877 --> 00:52:29,914
narrator: IT COMES UNEXPECTEDLY
FROM THE DETAILED MAPPING
1009
00:52:29,947 --> 00:52:34,118
OF THE RIVER TERRACES
AND THE SOILS ON TOP OF THEM.
1010
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:36,187
THE SCIENTISTS FIND FAULTS
1011
00:52:36,221 --> 00:52:41,125
CAUSED BY EARTH MOVEMENTS
BREAKING UP THE TERRACES.
1012
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:45,263
FINDING FRESH, ACTIVE FAULTS
HELPS PROVE THAT THE APENNINES
1013
00:52:45,296 --> 00:52:48,699
ARE INDEED STILL
ALIVE AND GROWING.
1014
00:52:50,235 --> 00:52:53,037
FRANK'S NAGGING QUESTION
HAS BEEN ANSWERED.
1015
00:52:53,070 --> 00:52:54,872
- IT'S DOWNSTREAM,
ACTUALLY STRATIFIED...
1016
00:52:54,905 --> 00:52:56,274
- A VERY EXCITING RESULT
1017
00:52:56,307 --> 00:52:58,276
THAT'S EMERGING
FROM OUR COLLABORATION
1018
00:52:58,309 --> 00:53:01,111
IS THAT IN FACT
THE MOUNTAIN FRONT AT BOLOGNA
1019
00:53:01,145 --> 00:53:04,415
IS TECTONICALLY ACTIVE
AND IS CONTINUING TO GROW.
1020
00:53:04,449 --> 00:53:06,651
- OH, LOOKIT THERE.
1021
00:53:06,684 --> 00:53:08,253
- THE DATA ARE VERY COMPELLING,
1022
00:53:08,286 --> 00:53:10,888
AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED
BY THIS CONCLUSION.
1023
00:53:12,723 --> 00:53:16,261
narrator: OTHER RESULTS
TAKE A FEW YEARS LONGER.
1024
00:53:16,294 --> 00:53:19,163
ROCK SAMPLES
FROM THE ALPI APUANE
1025
00:53:19,196 --> 00:53:22,166
REVEAL THAT HERE THE MOUNTAINS
HAVE RISEN UP FROM THE DEPTHS
1026
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:24,802
WITH UNUSUAL RAPIDITY,
1027
00:53:24,835 --> 00:53:28,639
ABOUT 1/3 OF AN INCH PER YEAR.
1028
00:53:28,673 --> 00:53:30,608
THIS IS VERY FAST GEOLOGICALLY
1029
00:53:30,641 --> 00:53:32,577
AND PROBABLY
COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED
1030
00:53:32,610 --> 00:53:36,013
IF THE CRUST WERE NOT BEING
PULLED APART SO STRONGLY
1031
00:53:36,046 --> 00:53:39,183
IN NORTHERN ITALY.
1032
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:40,851
TO TOP OFF THESE FINDINGS,
1033
00:53:40,885 --> 00:53:45,222
GPS STUDIES ALSO SHOW THAT
THE APENNINES ARE INDEED ALIVE
1034
00:53:45,256 --> 00:53:48,693
AND MOVING HORIZONTALLY
IN SOME AREAS.
1035
00:53:48,726 --> 00:53:51,762
THE DATA INDICATE
THAT IN SOME PARTS OF TUSCANY,
1036
00:53:51,796 --> 00:53:54,164
THE EARTH'S SURFACE
IS SPLITTING APART
1037
00:53:54,198 --> 00:53:57,702
ABOUT A 1/6 OF AN INCH PER YEAR.
1038
00:53:57,735 --> 00:54:00,771
THE DATA ALSO SHOW
THAT THE ITALIAN BOOT
1039
00:54:00,805 --> 00:54:04,275
IS STILL SWINGING BACK
AS IF TO KICK.
1040
00:54:04,309 --> 00:54:06,844
- EMERGING DOWNSTREAM HERE?
1041
00:54:06,877 --> 00:54:10,281
- YEAH, I THINK THAT IT COMES
THROUGH WHERE THIS FAULT RUNS.
1042
00:54:10,315 --> 00:54:12,617
narrator: ALL OF THIS EVIDENCE
FITS WELL WITH THE THEORY
1043
00:54:12,650 --> 00:54:16,621
THAT ROLLBACK IS OCCURRING
IN ITALY.
1044
00:54:16,654 --> 00:54:20,625
THE SEISMIC STUDIES CLEARLY SHOW
THAT THE ADRIA MICROPLATE
1045
00:54:20,658 --> 00:54:23,794
HAS SUNK DEEP INTO THE MANTLE.
1046
00:54:23,828 --> 00:54:26,331
THIS HAS HAPPENED
OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS,
1047
00:54:26,364 --> 00:54:28,866
BOTH SQUEEZING
THE APENNINES UPWARD
1048
00:54:28,899 --> 00:54:31,268
AND PULLING THEM APART.
1049
00:54:31,302 --> 00:54:35,406
IT'S A PROCESS THAT BALANCES
TWO OPPOSING FORCES,
1050
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,908
AND LIKEWISE,
ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE
1051
00:54:37,942 --> 00:54:41,746
CAN BE SEEN AS BOTH BENEFICIAL
AND HARMFUL.
1052
00:54:41,779 --> 00:54:45,583
EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
CAN CAUSE TREMENDOUS DAMAGE,
1053
00:54:45,616 --> 00:54:48,986
BUT THEY ALSO MAKE
FOR A BEAUTIFUL BOUNTIFUL LAND.
1054
00:54:49,019 --> 00:54:52,657
WITHOUT TECTONICALLY ACTIVE
GROWING MOUNTAINS,
1055
00:54:52,690 --> 00:54:54,492
THE GREAT MARBLE OF CARRARA
1056
00:54:54,525 --> 00:54:56,927
WOULD NEVER HAVE SEEN
THE LIGHT OF DAY
1057
00:54:56,961 --> 00:54:58,763
AND THE ART OF THE RENAISSANCE
1058
00:54:58,796 --> 00:55:01,799
MIGHT HAVE TURNED OUT
VERY DIFFERENTLY.
1059
00:55:01,832 --> 00:55:05,403
- STREAM THIS POINT OF ROCK
COMES RIGHT OUT HERE...
1060
00:55:05,436 --> 00:55:07,037
narrator: MEANWHILE,
FRANK PAZZAGLIA
1061
00:55:07,071 --> 00:55:08,138
AND HIS COLLEAGUES
1062
00:55:08,172 --> 00:55:10,375
HAVE BEEN ADDING
THEIR OWN BRUSHSTROKES
1063
00:55:10,408 --> 00:55:14,845
TO ITALY'S COMPLEX
GEOLOGIC PORTRAIT.
1064
00:55:14,879 --> 00:55:17,915
IT'S AN ELEGANT
AND UNUSUAL PORTRAIT,
1065
00:55:17,948 --> 00:55:21,018
AND LIKE MICHELANGELO'S
UNFINISHED PRISONERS,
1066
00:55:21,051 --> 00:55:22,587
IT'S NOT YET COMPLETE.
1067
00:55:22,620 --> 00:55:24,855
[gentle orchestral music
playing]
1068
00:55:24,889 --> 00:55:28,726
WORKING ON ITALIAN GEOLOGY
IS A CHALLENGE, CERTAINLY,
1069
00:55:28,759 --> 00:55:32,196
BUT DELIGHTFUL,
LIKE SO MUCH ELSE IN ITALY.
1070
00:55:35,265 --> 00:55:39,069
- I ALWAYS LAUGH BECAUSE
NO ONE EVER FEELS SORRY FOR YOU
1071
00:55:39,103 --> 00:55:42,473
WHEN YOU TELL THEM THAT
YOU HAVE TO GO DO WORK IN ITALY.
1072
00:55:45,009 --> 00:55:47,111
- IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE
TO WORK.
1073
00:55:47,144 --> 00:55:50,280
IT'S GOT BEAUTIFUL WEATHER,
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.
1074
00:55:52,182 --> 00:55:55,820
- IT'S VERY FERTILE
BECAUSE IT'S ACTIVE.
1075
00:55:55,853 --> 00:55:59,289
IT'S VERY BEAUTIFUL
BECAUSE IT'S ACTIVE.
1076
00:55:59,323 --> 00:56:01,392
THE REASON THAT ITALY
IS WHAT IT IS
1077
00:56:01,426 --> 00:56:05,129
IS BECAUSE TECTONICALLY
IT'S AN ACTIVE PLACE.
79257
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