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

Use of a high-precision gravity survey to understand the formation of oceanic crust and the role of melt at the southern Red Sea rift in Afar, Ethiopia

E. Lewi, D. Keir, Y. Birhanu, J. Blundy, G. Stuart, T. Wright, E. Calais, T.J. Wright, A. Ayele, D.J. Ferguson, T. Kidane & C. Vye-Brown, 2015, Geological Society London Special Publications, 420, 165-180

DOI: 10.1144/SP420.13

Type: article

First recorded eruption of Nabro volcano, Eritrea, 2011

B. Goitom, C. Oppenheimer, J.O.S. Hammond, R. Grandin, T. Barnie, A. Donovan, G. Ogubazghi, E. Yohannes, G. Kibrom, J-M. Kendall, S.A. Carn, D. Fee, C. Sealing, D. Keir, A. Ayele, J. Blundy, J. Hamlyn, T. Wright & S. Berhe, 2015, Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(10), Art.85

DOI: 10.1007/s00445-015-0966-3

Type: article

Introduction: Anatomy of rifting: Tectonics and magmatism in continental rifts, oceanic spreading centers, and transforms

Carolina Pagli, Francesco Mazzarini, Derek Keir, Eleonora Rivalta & Tyrone O. Rooney, 2015, Geosphere, 11(5), 1256-1261

DOI: 10.1130/GES01082.1

Type: article

Upper mantle structure of the southern Arabian margin: Insights from teleseismic tomography

Félicie Korostelev, Sylvie Leroy, Derek Keir, Abdulhakim Ahmed, Lapo Boschi, Frédérique Rolandone, Graham W. Stuart, Mathias Obrebski, Khaled Khanbari & Issa El-Hussain, 2015, Geosphere, 11(5), 1262-1278

DOI: 10.1130/GES01159.1

Type: article

Multiple mantle upwellings in the transition zone beneath the northern East-African Rift system from relative P-wave travel-time tomography

C. Civiero, J.O.S. Hammond, S. Goes, S. Fishwick, A. Ahmed, A. Ayele, C. Doubre, B. Goitom, D. Keir, J. Michael, S. Leroy, G. Ogubazghi, G. Rumpker & G.W. Stuart, 2015, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(9), 2949-2968

DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005948

Type: article