S2E8: Boiling Earth | Fierce Earth

Duration: 28'24''

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The team travel to Iceland to explore a country created by volcanoes. Dougal dives into the sea and touches the two tectonic plates of Europe and America. Leah plunges over a kilometre underground into Britain's deepest mine in Yorkshire. And Leo takes on the power of a geyser.

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