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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
Connect with Derek

Email: D.Keir@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Seismicity and subsidence following the 2011 Nabro eruption, Eritrea: Insights into the plumbing system of an off-rift volcano
J.E. Hamlyn, D. Keir, T.J. Wright, J.W Neuberg, B Goitom, J.O.S. Hammond, C. Pagli, C. Oppenheimer & J-M. Kendall, 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(11), 8267-8282
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011395
Type: article
Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup
Derek Keir, 2014, Astronomy & Geophysics, 55(5), 5.18-5.22
DOI: 10.1093/astrogeo/atu213
Type: article
Uppermost mantle velocity from Pn tomography in the Gulf of Aden
J. Corbeau, F. Rolandone, S. Leroy, A. Al-Lazki, A. Stork, D. Keir, G.W. Stuart, J.O.S. Hammond, C. Doubre, J. Vergne, A. Ahmed & K. Khanbari, 2014, Geosphere, 10(5), 958-968
DOI: 10.1130/GES01052.1
Type: article
Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath south-western margin of the Arabian Peninsula from teleseismic tomography
Félicie Korostelev, Clémence Basuyau, Sylvie Leroy, Christel Tiberi, Abdulhakim Ahmed, Graham W. Stuart, Derek Keir, Frédérique Rolandone, Ismail Al Ganad, Khaled Khanbari & Lapo Boschi, 2014, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(7), 2850-2864
DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005316
Type: article
The protracted development of focused magmatic intrusion during continental rifting
Tyrone O. Rooney, Ian D. Bastow, Derek Keir, Francesco Mazzarini, Emily Movsesian, Eric B. Grosfils, James R. Zimbelman, Michael S. Ramsey, Dereje Ayalew & Gezahegn Yirgu, 2014, Tectonics, 33(6), 875-897
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003514
Type: article