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

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)
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)
Type: article
Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Alessio Florio, Tim Greenfield, Derek Keir, Asfaw Erbello, Ameha Muluneh & Atalay Ayele, 2020, Tectonics, 39(8)
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)
Type: article