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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

Quantitative constraints on faulting and fault slip-rates in the northern Main Ethiopian Rift
Melanie Siegburg, Jonathan Bull, Casey Nixon, Derek Keir, Thomas Gernon, Giacomo Corti, Bekele Abebe, David Sanderson & Atalay Ayele, 2020, Tectonics, 39(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2019TC006046
Type: article
Tectonics of the Asela‐Langano margin, Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa)
Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Alessio Florio, Tim Greenfield, Derek Keir, Asfaw Erbello, Ameha Muluneh & Atalay Ayele, 2020, Tectonics, 39(8)
DOI: 10.1029/2020TC006075
Type: article
Mechanism for deep crustal seismicity: Insight from modeling of deformation process at the Main Ethiopian Rift
Ameha Muluneh, Sascha Brune, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Anne Glerum, Tesfaye Kidane & Jim Mori, 2020, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(7)
DOI: 10.1029/2020GC008935
Type: article
Low-frequency earthquakes beneath Tullu Moye volcano, Ethiopia, reveal fluid pulses from shallow magma chamber
Timothy Greenfield, Derek Keir, J-Michael Kendall & Atalay Ayele, 2019, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 526, 1-11
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115782
Type: article
Observing oblique slip during rift linkage in Northern Afar
Alessandro La Rosa, Carolina Pagli, Derek Keir, Federico Sani, Giacomo Corti, Hua Wang & Daniel Possee, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(19), 10782-10790
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084801
Type: article
Local seismicity near the actively deforming Corbetti volcano in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Aude Lavayssiere, Timothy Greenfield, Derek Keir, Atalay Ayele & J-Michael Kendall, 2019, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 381, 227-237
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.06.008
Type: article
Evolution of faulting and magmatism during volcanic rifting in the Ethiopian Rift
2019
Type: thesis