Dr Tom Raimondo
Lecturer
School of Natural and Built Environments
University of South Australia
GPO Box 2471
Adelaide SA 5001
Building P | Office P1-39 | Mawson Lakes Campus
p: +61 8 8302 6661
e: tom.raimondo@unisa.edu.au
w: http://people.unisa.edu.au/tom.raimondo

I am a member of the Barbara Hardy Institute. Find out more about the Institute on our website or on Facebook.

• Intracontinental mountain building in central Australia
• Fluid–rock interaction in shear zones
• Isotope and elemental geochemistry of fluid flow and its links to tectonic processes

• Metamorphic geology
• Structural geology
• Tectonics
• Stable isotope geochemistry

• Member of the Geological Society of Australia (GSA), including the Specialist Groups in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG) and Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology (SGGMP)
• Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG)
• Member of the Geological Society of America
• Member of the Australian Geoscience Teaching and Learning Network (AGTLN), and technical committee representative for UniSA

See my Google Scholar Citations profile.

Raimondo, T., Hand, M. and Collins, W. J., 2013. Compressional intracontinental orogens: ancient and modern perspectives. Earth-Science Reviews, submitted.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., Cliff, J., & Anczkiewicz, R., 2013. A simple mechanism for mid-crustal shear zones to record surface-derived fluid signatures. Geology, 41(6), 711–714, doi:10.1130/G34043.1. Download full text here.

Aitken, A. R. A., Raimondo, T. & Capitanio, F. A., 2013. The intraplate character of supercontinent tectonics. Gondwana Research, in press, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2013.03.005.

Walsh, A. K., Raimondo, T., Kelsey, D., Hand, M., Pfitzner, H. L., & Clark, C., 2013. Duration of high-pressure metamorphism and cooling during the intraplate Petermann Orogeny. Gondwana Research, in press, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.09.006.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., Cliff, J. & Harris, C., 2012. High-resolution geochemical record of fluid–rock interaction in a mid-crustal shear zone: a comparative study of major element and oxygen isotope transport in garnet. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30(3), 255–280, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00966.x.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M. & Faure, K., 2011. Assessing the geochemical and tectonic impacts of fluid–rock interaction in mid-crustal shear zones: a case study from the intracontinental Alice Springs Orogen, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29(8), 821–850, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00944.x.

Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S., Hand, M., Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, R. H., Evins, P. M. & Howard, H. M., 2010. The anatomy of a deep intracontinental orogen. Tectonics, 29(4), TC4024, doi:10.1029/2009TC002504.

Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S., Hand, M., Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, R. H., Evins, P. M. & Howard, H. M., 2009. Ediacaran intracontinental channel flow. Geology, 37(4), 291‒294, doi:10.1130/G25452A.1.

Howard, H. M., Werner, M., Smithies, R. H., Evins, P. M., Kirkland, C. L., Kelsey, D. E., Hand, M., Collins, A., Pirajno, F., Wingate, M. T. D., Maier, W. D. & Raimondo, T., 2011. The geology of the West Musgrave Province and the Bentley Supergroup ‒ A field guide. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 2011/4, 116pp. Download this publication here.

Hand, M., Morrissey, L., Anderson, J., Kelsey, D. & Raimondo, T., 2013. Long-term high thermal gradients in the crust. Program and Abstracts, Granulites & Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, India, 29.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., Cliff, J., & Anczkiewicz, R., 2012. The intraplate expression of the Delamerian Orogeny: do externally-derived fluids influence the large-scale reactivation of continental interiors? 2012 IAGR Annual Convention and 9th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia, IGCP 592, 42‒43.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., Cliff, J., & Anczkiewicz, R., 2012. Do externally-derived fluids influence the large-scale reactivation of continental interiors? Proceedings of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012, 688.

Tingay, M., Almberg, L., Anderson, M., Blenkinsop, T., Corkeron, M., McLaren, S., Murray-Wallace, C., Raimondo, T., Roach, M. & Tomkins, A. (eds) 2012. Program and Abstracts, 1st Australian Geoscience Teaching Workshop, 18‒19 January 2012, Adelaide, Australia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 100, 39pp.

Raimondo, T., & Clark, C., 2011. Fluid–rock interaction in intracontinental shear zones: geochemical and tectonic responses. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly 2011, 13, EGU2011-5338.

Netting, A., Payne, J., Wade, B., & Raimondo, T., 2011. Trace Element Micro-Analytical Imaging via Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011: Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Microscopy Society of America, 17, 590.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., & Cliff, J., 2010. Constraining the timing of deep meteoric fluid flow in reactivated orogenic belts. In: Quinn, C. D. & Daczko, N. R. (eds) Abstracts of the Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference, Port Macquarie. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 97, 55.

Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S. & Hand, M., 2010. Deep intracontinental channel flow: the anatomy of the Petermann Orogen, central Australia. In: Quinn, C. D. & Daczko, N. R. (eds) Abstracts of the Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference, Port Macquarie. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 97, 54.

Hand, M., Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S. & Kelsey, D. E., 2009. Intracratonic orogeny in central Australia. In: Timms, N. E., Foden, J., Evans, K. E., & Clark, C. (eds) Kangaroo Island 2009: Biennial Conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 96, 24.

Raimondo, T., Clark, C., Hand, M., Faure, K., & Collins, A. S., 2009. Deep intracratonic fluid flow in the Alice Springs Orogen, central Australia. In: Timms, N. E., Foden, J., Evans, K. E., & Clark, C. (eds) Kangaroo Island 2009: Biennial Conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 96, 37.

Raimondo, T., Hand, M., Clark, C., Faure, K., & Collins, A. S., 2009. Sources, thermal conditions and mechanisms of fluid ingress during regional rehydration of Alice Springs Orogeny intracratonic shear systems. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 101, 84, doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2008.11.008.

Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S., Hand, M., Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, H., & Evins, P., 2008. A kinematic, metamorphic and geochronological framework for intracratonic reworking in the western Musgrave Block, central Australia: evidence for lower crustal channel flow? Geological Society of Australia, Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2008, Abstracts, 89, 206.

2012

• Selected as a finalist in the 2012 South Australian Science Excellence Awards in the category of PhD research excellence - Life and Environmental Sciences.
• Recipient of a University Doctoral Research Medal from the University of Adelaide for outstanding research at PhD level.

2010

• Recipient of the 'Postgraduate Student of the Year' Award for excellence in published research contributions to the Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX), University of Adelaide.
• Recipient of the University of Adelaide PhD student Award for 'Best publication within candidature (published in 2009)' [Raimondo, T., Collins, A.S., Hand, M., Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, R.H., Evins, P.M. and Howard, H.M. (2009) Ediacaran intracontinental channel flow, Geology, 37(4), 291-294, doi:10.1130/G25452A.1].
• Awarded best student poster at the GSA Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology conference, Port Macquarie [Raimondo, T., Collins, A. S. & Hand, M., 2010. Deep intracontinental channel flow: the anatomy of the Petermann Orogen, central Australia. In: Quinn, C. D. & Daczko, N. R. (eds.) Abstracts of the Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference, Port Macquarie. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 97, 54].

 2008

• Awarded the Joyner Scholarship in Science (Postgraduate Research).

 2007

• Recipient of the Tate Memorial Medal for best results in Honours Geology;
• Recipient of the joint PIRSA-Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) Honours Bursary;
• Recipient of the AusIMM Award for Academic Excellence for superior academic achievement in Level III Geology;
• Recipient of the AusIMM Award for Academic Excellence for superior academic achievement in Level III Environmental Geoscience.

 2006

• Recipient of the James Barrans Scholarship for top third year student proceeding to Honours in Geology;
• Awarded the Jefferis Memorial Medal for best essay in Level III Philosophy;
• Recipient of the Professor Sir William Mitchell Prize for student with the most outstanding results in Level III Philosophy.

 2005

• Recipient of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Award for Academic Excellence for superior academic achievement in Level II Geology.

 2004

• Recipient of the Brian Daily Prize for Level II Geology;
• Awarded the Dean's Certificate of Merit for outstanding achievement in Level II Geology;
• Recipient of the Professor Sir William Mitchell Prize for most outstanding results in Level II Philosophy;
• Inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society.

 2003

• Recipient of the Prospectors/Estwing Prize for Level I Geology.