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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 researcher

Dr Derek Keir

Associate Professor

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Birhanu A. Kibret,
Atalay Ayele,
, 2019 , Journal of African Earth Sciences , 150 , 264--271
Type: article
Aude Lavayssiere,
Timothy Greenfield,
Atalay Ayele,
& J-Michael Kendall
, 2019 , Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 381 , 227--237
Type: article
Timothy Greenfield,
J-Michael Kendall,
& Atalay Ayele
, 2019 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 526 , 1--11
Type: article
Tim Greenfield,
J-Michael Kendall,
& Atalay Ayele
, 2019 , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Type: article
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