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.
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 researcher
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Christopher S. Ogden, Derek Keir, Ian D. Bastow, Atalay Ayele, S. Marcou, F. Ugo, A. Woodward, Birhanu A. Kibret & S. Gudbrandsson,
2021, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009831
Type: article
Emma Watts, Thomas Gernon, Rex N. Taylor, Derek Keir, Melanie Siegburg, Jasmin Jarman, Carolina Pagli & Anna Gioncada,
2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 408
Type: article
Melanie Siegburg, Jonathan Bull, Casey Nixon, Derek Keir, Thomas Gernon, Giacomo Corti, Bekele Abebe, David Sanderson & Atalay Ayele,
2020, Tectonics, 39(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2019TC006046
Type: article
Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Alessio Florio, Tim Greenfield, Derek Keir, Asfaw Erbello, Ameha Muluneh & Atalay Ayele,
2020, Tectonics, 39(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2020TC006075
Type: article
Ameha Muluneh, Sascha Brune, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Anne Glerum, Tesfaye Kidane & Jim Mori,
2020, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(7)
DOI: 10.1029/2020GC008935
Type: article