Old Age: It’s All in Your Mind When It Comes to Geologic Time
Posted 8 July 2011 by Liz O'Connell
By Merry Ann Moore for FrontierScientists.com It’s just a matter of time before one of the volcanoes in the chain that lines Cook Inlet erupts. But time in geologic terms is a bit like the federal deficit; so vast in scope it’s hard to comprehend. The Cook Inlet volcanoes of south central Alaska are practically babies when it comes to earth rock. “If you’re studying Precambrian geology, 10 million-year-old rock is young,” U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Michelle Coombs notes.... Read more
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