Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future - Keir - NERC

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 researcher

Dr Derek Keir

Associate Professor

Connect with Derek

Email: D.Keir@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geology and Geophysics

We research a wide range of societally impactful areas of geology and geophysics for a sustainable future. The latest facilities and technology development support our activities.

Research outputs

Initiation of a proto-transform fault prior to seafloor spreading

Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Jonathan Bull, Derek Keir, Taras Gerya, Carolina Pagli, Thomas Gernon, Atalay Ayele, Berhe Goitom, James O.S. Hammond & J-Michael Kendall, 2018, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(12), 4744-4756

DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007947

Type: article

Seismic anisotropy reveals a dynamic link between adjacent magmatic segments prior to dyke Intrusion

Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Tim Greenfield & Derek Keir, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 1-17

DOI: 10.1029/2018JB016420

Type: article

Imaging lithospheric discontinuities beneath the northern East African Rift using S‐to‐P receiver functions

Aude Lavayssiere, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, Derek Keir, James O. S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Cecile Doubre & Sylvie Leroy, 2018, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(10), 4048-4062

DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007463

Type: article

Seismicity associated with the formation of a new island in the southern Red Sea

Jade H.W. Eyles, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Joel Ruch & Sigurjon Jonsson, 2018, Frontiers in Earth Science, 6(141)

DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00141

Type: article

The development of late-stage continental breakup

Ian D. Bastow, Adam D. Booth, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Craig Magee, Christopher A-L. Jackson, John Warren, Jason Wilkinson & Matteo Lascialfari, 2018, Tectonics

DOI: 10.1029/2017TC004798

Type: article