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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
Connect with Derek

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Initiation of a proto-transform fault prior to seafloor spreading
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Jonathan Bull, Derek Keir, Taras Gerya, Carolina Pagli, Thomas Gernon, Atalay Ayele, Berhe Goitom, James O.S. Hammond & J-Michael Kendall, 2018, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(12), 4744-4756
DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007947
Type: article
Seismic anisotropy reveals a dynamic link between adjacent magmatic segments prior to dyke Intrusion
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Tim Greenfield & Derek Keir, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 1-17
DOI: 10.1029/2018JB016420
Type: article
Imaging lithospheric discontinuities beneath the northern East African Rift using S‐to‐P receiver functions
Aude Lavayssiere, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, Derek Keir, James O. S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Cecile Doubre & Sylvie Leroy, 2018, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(10), 4048-4062
DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007463
Type: article
Seismicity associated with the formation of a new island in the southern Red Sea
Jade H.W. Eyles, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Joel Ruch & Sigurjon Jonsson, 2018, Frontiers in Earth Science, 6(141)
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00141
Type: article
The development of late-stage continental breakup
Ian D. Bastow, Adam D. Booth, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Craig Magee, Christopher A-L. Jackson, John Warren, Jason Wilkinson & Matteo Lascialfari, 2018, Tectonics
DOI: 10.1029/2017TC004798
Type: article