How the Earth Was Made

00:00:05 male narrator: Planet Earth is unique

00:03:55 that the Earth had to be much older.

00:08:00 to create the first atomic weapons.

00:11:36 South African geologist Gary Stevens

00:14:57 which peppered the Earth during the tail-off

00:18:53 in the Barberton area in South Africa.

00:22:23 Each of these unusual rocky mounds

00:26:14 Following its oxygenation, the Earth was more recognizable.

00:30:08 to the hard rock part of the planet.

00:34:04 narrator: The fissures mark the path

00:37:51 as "snowball Earth,"

00:41:40 you get almost unanimous agreement

00:45:06 We see more different types of animals

00:49:21 lt's leaves, stems, twigs.

00:53:48 Over the next 200 million years

00:57:21 as opposed to just heat generation.

01:01:26 and as we turn it, it contains a diamond.

01:05:10 that lived with them, this layer is their tombstone.

01:08:43 were extinct.

01:12:30 The Matterhorn is the child of two continents.

01:16:09 but its height above sea level

01:20:06 it will slowly sink down and flow away to the edges.

01:23:58 they left behind a bruised and battered landscape

01:27:32 and grind New York into the North Atlantic Ocean.