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, Paola Molin, Andrea Sembroni, Ian D. Bastow & Derek Keir,
2018, Tectonics
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004799
Type: article
Thomas R Hall, Casey Nixon, Derek Keir, Paul W. Burton & Atalay Ayele,
2018, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108(1), 155-162
DOI: 10.1785/0120160343
Type: article
Isabel Hodgson, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Ryan J. Gallacher, Derek Keir, Cynthia J. Ebinger & Khalfan Mtelela,
2017, Tectonics, 1-31
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004477
Type: article
Crustal structure of active deformation zones in Africa: Implications for global crustal processes
C.B. Ebinger, D. Keir, I.D. Bastow, K. Whaler, J.O.S. Hammond, A. Ayele, M.S. Miller, C. Tiberi & S. Hautot,
2017, Tectonics
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004526
Type: article
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Martha K. Savage, Derek Keir, Hamish P. Hirschberg, Jonathan M. Bull, Thomas Gernon, James O.S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Atalay Ayele & Berhe Goitom,
2017, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 477, 41-51
Type: article