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
Timothy Greenfield, Derek Keir, J-Michael Kendall & Atalay Ayele,
2019, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 526, 1-11
Type: article
Alessandro La Rosa, Carolina Pagli, Derek Keir, Federico Sani, Giacomo Corti, Hua Wang & Daniel Possee,
2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(19), 10782-10790
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084801
Type: article
Aude Lavayssiere, Timothy Greenfield, Derek Keir, Atalay Ayele & J-Michael Kendall,
2019, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 381, 227-237
Type: article
Emma Chambers, Nicholas Harmon, Derek Keir & Catherine Rychert,
2019, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(4), 2091-2109
DOI: 10.1029/2018GC008129
Type: article