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    From Rocks in Colorado, Evidence of a ‘Chaotic Solar system’

    February 23, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    The layer cake of sedimentary rock near Big Bend, Texas, shows the alternating layers of shale and limestone characteristic of the rock laid down at the bottom of a shallow ocean during the late Cretaceous period. The rock holds the 87 million-year-old signature of a 'resonance transition' in the orbits of Mars and Earth, definitive geologic evidence that the orbits of the planets in our solar system behave differently than prevailing theory, which held that the planets orbit like clockwork in a quasiperiodic manner. Credit: Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University

    The layer cake of sedimentary rock near Big Bend, Texas, shows the alternating layers of shale and limestone characteristic of the rock laid down at the bottom of a shallow ocean during the late Cretaceous period. The rock holds the 87 million-year-old signature of a ‘resonance transition’ in the orbits of Mars and Earth, definitive geologic evidence that the orbits of the planets in our solar system behave differently than prevailing theory, which held that the planets orbit like clockwork in a quasiperiodic manner. Credit: Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University

    Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of WM and NW has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in th...

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