I've read that the geological dating process is frought with uncertainty as when dating items found within a strata and assuming that they were not washed into/near the strata being estimated.
For example, bones could wash into a gully and be dated according to gully strata even though they may be younger, etc. (as you may know)

As such I would take any date given as only an estimate. So the million years may not have been...though I get what you are saying.

Also, somebody started a line of thinking that the speed of light is slowing down (e.g. Satterwaite/field? ). (See http://www.setterfield.org/essays/speedo.html link). Bottom line here is that 1 million years a million years ago may (now) only take a week or three in today's seconds (whatever) since each second "today" is equivalent to many more that happened in the past....

That gets us back to the possibility of the earth rolling like a basketball over a "really short amount" of "current/nowadays seconds" time.

Just my $.02 worth

p.s. (I may read the whole paper to see if I have to do any backpedaling :)

• http://www.setterfield.org/essays/speedo.html