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

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
Type: article
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Tim Greenfield & Derek Keir, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 1-17
Type: article
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
Type: article
Jade H.W. Eyles, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Joel Ruch & Sigurjon Jonsson, 2018, Frontiers in Earth Science, 6(141)
Type: article
Ian D. Bastow, Adam D. Booth, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Craig Magee, Christopher A-L. Jackson, John Warren, Jason Wilkinson & Matteo Lascialfari, 2018, Tectonics
Type: article