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

Small-scale thermal upwellings under the Northern East African Rift from S travel-time tomography

C. Civiero,

S. Goes,

J.O.S. Hammond,

S. Fishwick,

A. Ahmed,

A. Ayele,

C. Doubre,

B. Goitom,

D. Keir,

J-M. Kendal,

S. Leroy,

G. Ogubazghi,

G. Rumpker,

& G.W. Stuart

, 2016 , Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , 121 (10) , 7395--7408

DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013070

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

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

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

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