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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

Seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle below Western rift, East Africa
G. Tepp, C.J. Ebinger, H. Zal, R. Gallacher, N.J. Accardo, D.J. Shillington, J. Gaherty, Derek Keir, A.A. Nyblade, G.J. Mbogoni, P.R.N. Chindandali, R. Ferdinand-Wambura, G.D. Mulibo & G. Kamihanda, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
DOI: 10.1029/2017JB015409
Type: article
Magma plumbing systems
Craig Magee, Carl T.E. Stevenson, Susanna K. Ebmeier, Derek Keir, James O.S. Hammond, Joachim H. Gottsman, Kathryn A. Whaler, Nick Schofield, Christopher A-L. Jackson, Michael S. Petronis, Brian O'Driscoll, Joanna V. Morgan, Alexander Cruden, Stefan A. Vollgger, Greg Dering, Steven Micklethwaite & Matthew D. Jackson, 2018, Journal of Petrology, 59(6), 1217-1251
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egy064
Type: article
Constraints on fault and crustal strength of the Main Ethiopian Rift from formal inversion of earthquake focal mechanism data
Ameha Muluneh, Tesfaye Kidane, Giacomo Corti & Derek Keir, 2018, Tectonophysics, 731-732, 731-732
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.03.010
Type: article
Seismicity during continental breakup in the Red Sea rift of Northern Afar
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Jonathan Bull, Thomas Gernon, Cynthia Ebinger, James O.S. Hammond, J.-Michael Kendall, Berhe Goitom, Atalay Ayele & Manahloh Belachew, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1-18
DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014902
Type: article
Geological evolution of the Boset-Bericha Volcanic Complex, Main Ethiopian Rift
Melanie Siegburg, Thomas M. Gernon, Jonathan M. Bull, Derek Keir, Dan N. Barfod, Rex N. Taylor, Bekele Abebe & Atalay Ayele, 2018, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 351, 115-133
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.12.014
Type: article