Research project

Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future

Project overview

RiftVolc is built around a NERC funded large grant which aims to research past, present and future volcanic and seismic activity in different sectors of the East African rift system. The project also draws on several NERC funded PhD studentships (SPITFIRE and INSPIRE). Project partners include the BGS, the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Imperial, Florence, Pisa, Strasbourg, Sorbonne, Addis Ababa, the Geological Survey of Ethiopia, and Reykjavik Geothermal.

The team at the University of Southampton primarily focus on using passive seismology, structural geology, volcanology, and geochemistry to understand tectonics, magmatic, and hydrothermal processes during extension.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Derek Keir

Associate Professor
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Giacomo Corti, Paola Molin, Andrea Sembroni, Ian D. Bastow & Derek Keir, 2018, Tectonics
Type: article
Thomas R Hall, Casey Nixon, Derek Keir, Paul W. Burton & Atalay Ayele, 2018, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108(1), 155-162
Type: article
Isabel Hodgson, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Ryan J. Gallacher, Derek Keir, Cynthia J. Ebinger & Khalfan Mtelela, 2017, Tectonics, 1-31
Type: article
C.B. Ebinger, D. Keir, I.D. Bastow, K. Whaler, J.O.S. Hammond, A. Ayele, M.S. Miller, C. Tiberi & S. Hautot, 2017, Tectonics
Type: article
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Martha K. Savage, Derek Keir, Hamish P. Hirschberg, Jonathan M. Bull, Thomas Gernon, James O.S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Atalay Ayele & Berhe Goitom, 2017, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 477, 41-51
Type: article