G&G pgr students complete seismic service run at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania

PhD students Ryan Gallacher and Finn Illsley-Kemp have recently completed a two week trip to Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. They were performing a service run on the seismic network that was deployed earlier in the year. The project, “Active fault kinematics during non-volcanic rifting in East Africa”, is in collaboration with Beach Petroleum (Tanzania) Ltd., the… Read More G&G pgr students complete seismic service run at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania

Off-rift volcanism in rift zones determined by crustal unloading, new paper in nature Geoscience

Volcanoes commonly form on the flanks of young continental rifts, whereas in more evolved rifts the volcanism is more commonly in the rift centre. Derek Keir, Lecturer in Earth Science from the Geology and Geophysics research Group, contributed to a team that modelled the stress field below rift grabens of varying width and depth caused… Read More Off-rift volcanism in rift zones determined by crustal unloading, new paper in nature Geoscience

Understanding the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

A workshop on the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system was organized at the College de France, Paris, from 19-20 November 2013. The primary focus of the workshop was to enhance understanding of the dynamics interaction between the colder, more brittle lithosphere and the warmer, more ductile asthenosphere by combining constraints from observations and… Read More Understanding the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

Bullerwell Lecture 2013 – Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup

The highlight of this year’s British Geophysical Association (BGA) Postgraduate Research in Progress meeting, hosted by the University of Cambridge, was undoubtedly the annual Bullerwell Lecture. The 2013 Bullerwell Lectureship (presented each year by the Royal Astronomical Society to ‘an outstanding, young British Geophysicist’)  was awarded to Dr. Derek Keir, lecturer in Earth Science at the… Read More Bullerwell Lecture 2013 – Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup

Hot and Deep: Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar

A recent paper in Nature, Dr Derek Keir, from Geology and Geophysics research group at Ocean and Earth Science, has recently been involved in a study on the Afar Rift Valley. The Nature paper by Ferguson and coauthors used geochemical data from lavas erupted along the the Afar rift valley to constrain the origin of magmatism… Read More Hot and Deep: Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar