ABSTRACT

The stations of the planets on a radius of the solar system appear to be perspectively related to the absolute dates of terrestrial diastrophisms and probably also to the spacing of the discontinuities in the earth's interior and atmosphere. Such a relationship would point to cosmic forces as the cause of terrestrial orogenies and discontinuities; also it would follow that the planets were born in the order of their increasing distances from the sun and that they are much younger than is generally accepted. It is believed that the mass redistributions accompanying their births disturbed the existing gravity regime of the solar system and induced a new one. On the pre-existing planets the gravitational perturbations caused diastrophisms and the development of discontinuities. On earth this hypothesis would account for six orogenic sequences. Of the five discontinuities which could have developed in its interior three are characterized by wave velocity changes and a fourth has been interpreted as a phase transition zone.

Perspectivities are governed by simple cross-ratios. Thus, given the stations of the planets and the absolute dates of three major orogenic events, other diastrophisms can be found by interpolation and extrapolation. Similarly, the depths of three first-order discontinuities would determine the spacing of other transition zones.