4300 years wouldn’t even be an eyeblink in Earth time. I used to live near Stone Mountain, which was formed underground and it took 285 million years for the land around it to erode so it came to its present form. And that’s not even old.
The Appalachians are the oldest mountain range of Earth and they’re still here...............
"October, 1999; 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. The microscopic organisms were revived in a laboratory after being in 'suspended animation', encased in a hard-shelled spore, for an estimated 250 million years. The species has not been identified, but is referred to as strain 2-9-3, or B. permians."
LIVING!