[mnehring]

That means that instead of forming between 428 and 418 million years ago, the rocks actually formed between 428 and 426 million years ago.

In the big picture of things, that seems like a pretty small recalibration.

[count-your-change]

I think what the import of this is that what was believed to have formed in 10 million years, they now say formed in 2 million years and therefore the speed at at which formations are laid down must be rethought.

Now my watch is eight million years off.