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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

Seafloor spreading event in western Gulf of Aden during the November 2010 - March 2011 period captured by regional seismic networks: Evidence for diking events and interactions with a nascent transform zone
A. Ahmed, C. Doubre, S. Leroy, K. Mohamed, D. Keir, A. Ahmadine, J. Perrot, L. Audin, J. Vergne, A. Nercessian, E. Jacques, K. Khanbari, J. Sholan, F. Rolandone & I. Alganad, 2016, Geophysical Journal International, 205(2), 1244-1266
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw068
Type: article
Magmatism at continental passive margins inferred from ambient-noise phase-velocity in the Gulf of Aden
Félicie Korostelev, Sylvie Leroy, Derek Keir, Cornelis Weemstra, Lapo Boschi, Irene Molinari, Abdulhakim Ahmed, Graham W. Stuart, Frédérique Rolandone, Khaled Khanbari & Ali Al-Lazki, 2016, Terra Nova, 28(1), 19-26
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12182
Type: article
A multidisciplinary study of the final episode of the Manda Hararo dyke sequence, Ethiopia, and implications for trends in volcanism during the rifting cycle
T.D. Barnie, D. Keir, I. Hamling, B. Hofmann, M. Belachew, S. Carn, D. Eastwell, J.O.S. Hammond, A. Ayele, C. Oppenheimer, T. Wright, T.J. Wright, A. Ayele, D.J. Ferguson, T. Kidane & C. Vye-Brown, 2016, Geological Society London Special Publications, 420, 149-163
DOI: 10.1144/SP420.6
Type: article
Seismicity of the central Afar rift and implications for Tendaho dam hazards
A. Ayele, C.J. Ebinger, C. van Alstyne, D. Keir, C.W. Nixon, M. Belachew, J.O.S. Hammond, T.J. Wright, A. Ayele, D.J. Ferguson, T. Kidane & C. Vye-Brown, 2016, Geological Society London Special Publications, 420, 341-354
DOI: 10.1144/SP420.9
Type: article
Diking-induced moderate-magnitude earthquakes on a youthful rift border fault: the 2002 Nyiragongo-Kalehe sequence, D.R. Congo
C. Wauthier, B. Smets & D. Keir, 2015, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(12), 4280-4291
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006110
Type: article