Derek Boswell Keir
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
MSc in Geology and Geophysics, Imperial College London, 1998-2002 PhD Tectonics and Seismology, Royal Holloway University of London, 2002-2006 Teaching Fellow in Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, 2006-2007 NERC Research Fellow, University of Leeds, 2007-2011 Teaching Fellow in Geology, University of Southampton, 2011 Lecturer in Earth Science, University of Southampton, 2011-2015 Associate Professor at Geophysics, University of Southampton, 2015-present Associate Professor at Tectonics, University of Florence, 2016-present
Research Interest
Structural Geology Remote Sensing and GIS Field Geology
Publications
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Korostelev, Félicie; Leroy, Sylvie; Keir, Derek; Weemstra, Cornelis; Boschi, Lapo; Molinari, Irene; Ahmed, Abdulhakim; Stuart, Graham W .; Rolandone, Frédérique; Khanbari, Khaled; Al-Lazki, Ali (2016). Magmatism at continental passive margins from Ambient-Noise Phase-velocity in the Gulf of Aden. TERRA NOVA, vol. 28, pp. 19-26, ISSN: 0954-4879
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Gallacher, Ryan J; Keir, Derek; Harmon, Nicholas; Stuart, Graham; Leroy, Sylvie; Hammond, James OS; Kendall, J-Michael; Ayele, Atalay; Goitom, Berhe; Ogubazghi, Ghebrebrhan; Ahmed, Abdulhakim (2016). The initiation of segmented buoyancy-driven melting during continental breakup. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 7, pp. 13110-13115, ISSN: 2041-1723
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Lewi, E; Keir, D.; Birhanu, Y .; Blundy, J .; Stuart, G .; Wright, T .; Calais, E. (2016). Use of a high-precision gravity survey to understand the formation of oceanic crust and the role of melt at the southern Red Sea rift in Afar, Ethiopia. SPECIAL PUBLICATION - GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, vol. 420, pp. 165-180, ISSN: 0305-8719
