Sharmaine Verhaert

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2022	University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD in Geology
2020 - 2020	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	MSc in Earth Sciences (Swiss-European Mobility Programme)
2019 - 2021	Ghent University	Belgium	MSc in Geology
2016 - 2019	Ghent University	Belgium	BSc in Geology

Year	Citation
2024	Verhaert, S., Glorie, S., Hand, M., Mulder, J., Milnes, A., & Halpin, J. (2024). An Ediacaran orogeny in subglacial East Antarctica is uncovered by detrital garnet geochronology. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 306-1-306-12. DOI

Year	Citation
2023	Verhaert, S., Glorie, S., Hand, M., Milnes, A. R., Mulder, J. A., & Halpin, J. A. (2023). Using Detrital Garnet Lu-Hf Geochronology to Study Subglacial Antarctica from Australian Shorelines. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstract of Goldschmidt 2023. Lyon, France: European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. DOI
2023	Mayer-Ullmann, F., Glorie, S., Mulder, J., Hand, M., Morrissey, L., Verhaert, S., & Halpin, J. (2023). Thermal history of the East Antarctic margin: Campaign-style apatite U-Pb and fission track study. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the 18th International Conference on Thermochronology (Thermo 2023). Riva del Garda, Italy: THERMO.
2022	Verhaert, S., Nachtergaele, S., & De Grave, J. (2022). Evolution of the Andaman Basin: geochronological constraints from its eastern (Myanmar) and western (Andaman Islands) margin. Poster session presented at the meeting of Geologica Belgica. Brussels: Université de Liège.

2023-2024, ANZIC (Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium) Legacy Funding - project: "Unravelling the tectonic and metamorphic framework of subglacial East Antarctica using detrital garnet Lu-Hf geochronology". Awarded a grant of $11,660 to analyse IODP, ODP and DSDP core material from glacial outflow deposits along the margin of East Antarctica. These glacial outflow deposits are important archives of detritus (sediments and clasts) that were eroded from East Antarctica's crystalline basement - which is currently almost entirely covered by an extensive ice sheet. Novel geochronological dating techniques will be applied to detrital sediments from selected core samples and the resulting dataset will provide us with new insights into the geological history of subglacial East Antarctica and into the tectonic evolution of past supercontinent configurations.

University of Adelaide investigators: Sharmaine Verhaert (CI), A/Prof Stijn Glorie, Prof Martin Hand, Dr Jack Mulder

Project in collaboration with: Prof Nathan Daczko (Macquarie University) and Dr Jacqueline Halpin (University of Tasmania)

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