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How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff

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North America didn’t always have its familiar shape, nor its famed mountains, canyons, and plains: all of that was once contained in an unrecognizable mass, buried deep in Rodinia, a huge supercontinent that lay on the face of the Earth. Peter J. Haproff explains how it took millions of years and some incredible plate tectonics to forge the continent we know today.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Peter J. Haproff
Script Editor
Emma Bryce
Director
Hernando Bahamon
Art Director
Andrés Landazábal
Composer
Manuel Borda
Compositor
Ricardo Avila
Animator
Miguel Otálora
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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