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

E. Lewi, D. Keir, Y. Birhanu, J. Blundy, G. Stuart, T. Wright, E. Calais, T.J. Wright, A. Ayele, D.J. Ferguson, T. Kidane & C. Vye-Brown, 2015, Geological Society London Special Publications, 420, 165-180
Type: article
B. Goitom, C. Oppenheimer, J.O.S. Hammond, R. Grandin, T. Barnie, A. Donovan, G. Ogubazghi, E. Yohannes, G. Kibrom, J-M. Kendall, S.A. Carn, D. Fee, C. Sealing, D. Keir, A. Ayele, J. Blundy, J. Hamlyn, T. Wright & S. Berhe, 2015, Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(10), Art.85
Type: article
Carolina Pagli, Francesco Mazzarini, Derek Keir, Eleonora Rivalta & Tyrone O. Rooney, 2015, Geosphere, 11(5), 1256-1261
Type: article
Félicie Korostelev, Sylvie Leroy, Derek Keir, Abdulhakim Ahmed, Lapo Boschi, Frédérique Rolandone, Graham W. Stuart, Mathias Obrebski, Khaled Khanbari & Issa El-Hussain, 2015, Geosphere, 11(5), 1262-1278
Type: article
C. Civiero, J.O.S. Hammond, S. Goes, S. Fishwick, A. Ahmed, A. Ayele, C. Doubre, B. Goitom, D. Keir, J. Michael, S. Leroy, G. Ogubazghi, G. Rumpker & G.W. Stuart, 2015, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(9), 2949-2968
Type: article