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 researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Emma L. Chambers, Nick Harmon, Kate Rychert, Ryan J. Gallacher & Derek Keir,
2022, Geophysical Journal International, 230(3), 2036-2055
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac156
Type: article
Modelling S-wave velocity structure beneath the central main Ethiopian rift using receiver functions
Birhanu A. Kibret, Atalay Ayele & Derek Keir,
2022, Frontiers in Earth Science, 10
Type: article
Derek Keir, Luca De Siena, Cecile Doubre, Jessica Johnson, Francesco Maccaferri & Luigi Passarelli,
2021, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9
Type: letterEditorial
Emma L. Chambers, Nicholas Harmon, Catherine Rychert & Derek Keir,
2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 573
Type: article
Martina Raggiunti, Derek Keir & Carolina Pagli,
2021, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9
Type: article
Christopher S. Ogden, Derek Keir, Ian D. Bastow, Atalay Ayele, S. Marcou, F. Ugo, A. Woodward, Birhanu A. Kibret & S. Gudbrandsson,
2021, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009831
Type: article
Emma Watts, Thomas Gernon, Rex N. Taylor, Derek Keir, Melanie Siegburg, Jasmin Jarman, Carolina Pagli & Anna Gioncada,
2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 408
Type: article