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NOVA

From Lava to Land

2m 14s

So how did North America and its fellow continents get started? To see what the very first land might have looked like, I’m heading to a place far from our continent right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—Hawaii. Here you can witness a force of nature that creates land from scratch.

Aired: 10/20/15
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