Comments on: Witnessing time – from 445 million year old rocks exposed in the Fjords to ~4 thousand year old small ice caps http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/15/14728/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kirsty Tinto http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/15/14728/comment-page-1/#comment-16255 Kirsty Tinto Fri, 20 May 2011 03:46:06 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14728#comment-16255 Yes changed the title to reflect the age being of the exposed rocks on the fjords. Thanks. However, the ~4 thousand year age on the ice cap is correct (see linked reference).

]]> By: Sue Ann Bowling http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/15/14728/comment-page-1/#comment-16034 Sue Ann Bowling Sun, 15 May 2011 16:54:59 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14728#comment-16034 Beautiful pictures, but your headline writer needs to learn the difference between 4000 years and 4000 thousand (= 4 million) years. And the fjords aren’t 445 million years old; the rocks in which they are carved are.

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