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Fast and Furious: Witnessing the birth of Africa's new ocean
Afar Rift Consortium at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
The Afar Rift Consortium has been chosen to present a stand on our work at this year's 350th Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. We are one of only 26 groups from a field of 160 to be selected. The exhibition runs from Friday 25th June to Sunday 4th July at the Southbank Centre.
Click here for our full press release.
This page is a taster for some of the features of exhibit and will be updated over the next few days as more material becomes available.
Photographs (click for hi-res versions)
Rocks, rifts and volcanoes...
The team at work...
These photos may be reproduced free of charge provided the photographer is credited. Details of photographer can be found by clicking on each image and scrolling down.
Videos and movies
Our exhibit includes movies of the 3D structure of the Afar rift and on how the movement of the tectonic plates has shaped eastern Africa in the past and continue to do so 50 million years into the future. We also have a series of short videos showing a day in the life of a volcanologist, geodesist, seismologist and geophysicist. The files for all of our movies and videos can be found by clicking this link.
Here are two of the A day in the life of ... videos.
A day in the life of a seismologist
A day in the life of a volcanologist
A day in the life of a geophysicist
A day in the life of a geodesist
Links and Contacts
Our Royal Society blog
http://seefurtherfestival.org/blogs/fast-and-furious
Tim Wright on Radio 4's Today programme on Friday 25th June. Tim's section is about 2.50 in.
For more details contact Hannah Isom at the University of Leeds Press Office at h.isom@leeds.ac.uk
Fast and Furious is brought to you by the Afar Rift Consortium, a project funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The consortium contains scientists from the Universities of Leeds, Bristol, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Cambridge, and the British Geological Survey, with partners in Ethiopia, France and the US.
We are grateful to the following for financial or in kind contributions: NERC, the Universities of Leeds, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, the British Geological Survey, University of Rochester, National Centre for Earth Observation, US National Science Foundation, Seis-UK, Geological Soc., Royal Astron. Soc., British Geophysical Assoc., Mineralogical Soc., Volcanic & Magmatic Studies Group, Curry Fund of the Geologists’ Assoc., Getech Ltd.
