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
Giacomo Corti, Raffaello Cioni, Zara Franceschini, Federico Sani, Stephane Scaillet, Paola Molin, Ilaria Isola, Francesco Mazzarini, Sascha Brune, Derek Keir, Asfaw Erbello, Ameha Muluneh, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp & Anne Glerum,
2019, Nature Communications, 10(1309), 1-11
Type: article
Aude Lavayssiere, Connor Drooff, Cynthia Ebinger, Ryan Gallacher, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Sarah J. Oliva & Derek Keir,
2019, Tectonics
DOI: 10.1029/2018TC005379
Type: article
Tim Greenfield, Derek Keir, J-Michael Kendall & Atalay Ayele,
2019, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007648
Type: article
Birhanu A. Kibret, Atalay Ayele & Derek Keir,
2019, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 150, 264-271
Type: article
Carolina Pagli, Sang-Ho Yun, Cynthia Ebinger, Derek Keir & Hua Wang,
2019, Geology, 47, 31-34
DOI: 10.1130/G45345.1
Type: article