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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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Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Probabilistic seismic‐hazard assessment for Eritrea
Berhe Goitom, Maximilian J. Werner, Katsuichiro Goda, J.‐michael Kendall, James O. S. Hammond, Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, Clive Oppenheimer, Agnes Helmstetter, Derek Keir & Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, 2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(3), 1478-1494
DOI: 10.1785/0120160210
Type: article
Local earthquake magnitude scale and b-value for the Danakil region of Northern Afar
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Jonathan Bull, Atalay Ayele, James O. S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Ryan Gallacher, Thomas Gernon & Berhe Goitom, 2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(2), 521-531
DOI: 10.1785/0120150253
Type: article
Surface wave imaging of the weakly extended Malawi Rift from ambient-noise and teleseismic Rayleigh waves from onshore and lake-bottom seismometers
N.J. Accardo, J.B. Gaherty, D.J. Shillington, C.J. Ebinger, A.A. Nyblade, G.J. Mbogoni, P.R.N. Chindandali, R.W. Ferdinand, G.D. Mulibo, G. Kamihanda, D. Keir, C. Scholz, K. Selway, J.P. O’Donnell, G. Tepp, R. Gallacher, K. Mtelela, J. Salima & A. Mruma, 2017, Geophysical Journal International, 209(3), 1892-1905
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggx133
Type: article
Small-scale thermal upwellings under the Northern East African Rift from S travel-time tomography
C. Civiero, S. Goes, J.O.S. Hammond, S. Fishwick, A. Ahmed, A. Ayele, C. Doubre, B. Goitom, D. Keir, J-M. Kendal, S. Leroy, G. Ogubazghi, G. Rumpker & G.W. Stuart, 2016, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(10), 7395-7408
DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013070
Type: article
The initiation of segmented buoyancy-driven melting during continental breakup
R. Gallacher, D. Keir, N. Harmon, G. Stuart, S. Leroy, J.O.S. Hammond, J-M. Kendall, A. Ayele, B. Goitom, G. Ogubazghi & A. Ahmed, 2016, Nature Communications, 7
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13110
Type: article