Thomas Lamont

Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Thomas Lamont is a field geologist and petrologist interested in how tectonic processes influence ore-formation. He obtained is undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Oxford, UK, where he investigated accrectionary orogenic and metamorphic processes in Cyclades, Greece. He then undertook a BHP funded postdoc at the University of Bristol, where he investigated the geodynamic controls on porphyry copper deposits in the SW USA. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is focussing research efforts on flat-slab subduction and the upper plate response, using the SW USA as a case study.