Dominik Sorger

Dominik Sorger
University Assistant

Petrology & Geochemistry
Department of Earth Sciences
NAWI Graz Geocenter

University of Graz, Austria

Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz

Phone: +43 316 380 8717

dominik.sorger@uni-graz.at

geo@domsorger.eu

Curriculum Vitae

I am a University Assistant at the University of Graz, integrating petrology, thermodynamic modelling, and geochronology to explore crustal evolution. My research spans diverse metamorphic terranes, ranging from the Archean Isua Supracrustal Belt to the Variscan and Alpine orogenies. A central focus of my work is investigating the stability of REE- and actinide-bearing accessory phases, such as monazite, allanite and uraninite, in metamorphic rocks. I specifically examine how these minerals grow, stabilize, and partition trace elements during progressive prograde and retrograde metamorphism.

News

New paper in Nature Geoscience: a hot start to deep subduction

Our new paper, led by Jan Schönig (University of Göttingen), is out in Nature Geoscience. We studied a ~4.4 Ma ultrahigh-pressure eclogite from Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea, which preserves both coesite-bearing garnet from more than 90 km depth and garnet cores recording much warmer conditions at around 45 km.The press releases from Göttingen and Graz are linked below.

Press release University of Göttingen News - University of Graz