Reappraising the Elatina series: What if the Solar Interpretation Were Correct?

[2506.02628] Reappraising the Elatina series: What if the Solar Interpretation Were Correct? Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Astrophysics > Solar and Stellar Astrophysics arXiv:2506.02628 (astro-ph) [Submitted on 3 Jun 2025 ( v1 ), last revised 28 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)] Title: Reappraising the Elatina series: What if the Solar Interpretation Were Correct? Authors: F. Stefani , M. Gugliotta , G.M. Horstmann , G. Mamatsashvili , T. Weier View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: We revisit the sedimentary laminae from the Neoproterozoic Elatina Formation of South Australia. These were first interpreted as varves driven by solar activity and later as tidalites formed by tidal processes, although the debate has remained open. This series exhibits remarkably consistent periodicities, including a primary and a secondary period of approximately 12 and 314 laminae, respectively. Our present analysis reveals a statistically significant negative correlation between the length of a cycle and the amplitude of the subsequent cycle. By analyzing the residuals of the series' minima with respect to a linear trend and calculating Dicke's ratio, we show that this series exhibits a high degree of phase stability, except for a single break-point which possibly indicates a 90° phase shift. As these findings are difficult to reconcile with the tidal model, we reconsider the original interpretation as solar-driven sedimentation and tentatively discuss it in terms of a recently developed synchronization model of the solar dynamo. This model is used to calculate the orbital periods of Venus, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn that would be required to explain the 12-year cycle, when interpreted as a modified solar Schwabe cycle, and the 314-year cycle, when interpreted as a prolonged Suess-de Vries cycle. Assuming that the sums of the angular momenta of Jupiter and Saturn and Venus and Earth are pairwise conserved, we find that the planetary orbits change surprisingly little. The plausibility of such changes over a period of seven hundred million years is discussed in light of solar system dynamics. Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) Cite as: arXiv:2506.02628 [astro-ph.SR] (or arXiv:2506.02628v2 [astro-ph.SR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.02628 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Frank Stefani [ view email ] [v1] Tue, 3 Jun 2025 08:44:09 UTC (598 KB) [v2] Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:06:37 UTC (470 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: astro-ph.SR < prev | next > new | recent | 2025-06 Change to browse by: astro-ph astro-ph.EP References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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