Staff directory

Benoît Smets

Earth Sciences
Natural hazards
Publications
  • Smets, B.Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C. 2017. ‘Mapping the Virunga’. In: Van Schuylenbergh, P., de Koeijer, H. (eds), Virunga, Archives and Collections of an Outstanding National Park. Tervuren : Royal Museum for Central Africa, pp. 98-105. (PR) ISBN: 978-9-4926-6904-9.
  • Geirsson, H.,  d'Oreye, N.,  Mashagiro, N.,  Syauswa, M.,  Celli, G.,  Kadufu, B.,  Smets, B. & Kervyn, F. 2017. ‘Volcano-tectonic deformation in the Kivu Region, Central Africa: Results from six years of continuous GNSS observations of the Kivu Geodetic Network (KivuGNet)’. Journal of African Earth Sciences 134, special issue : AVCoR Special Issue : 809-823. DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.12.013. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X16304186  I.F. 1.326.
  • Barette, F.,  Poppe, S.,  Smets, B.,  Benbakkar, M. & Kervyn, M. 2017. ‘Spatial variation of volcanic rock geochemistry in the Virunga Volcanic Province: Statistical analysis of an integrated database’. Journal of African Earth Sciences 134, special issue : AVCoR Special Issue : 888-903. DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.09.018. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X16303119  I.F. 1.420.
  • Smets, B.,  d'Oreye, N.,  Kervyn, M. & Kervyn, F. 2017. ‘Gas piston activity of the Nyiragongo lava lake: First insights from a Stereographic Time-Lapse Camera system’. Journal of African Earth Sciences 134, special issue : AVCoR Special Issue : 874-887. DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.04.010. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X16301261  I.F. 1.420.
  • Poppe, S.,  Smets, B.,  Fontijn, K.,  Rukesa, M.B.,  Migabo, A.,  Milungu, A.K.,  Namogo, D.B.,  Kervyn, F. & Kervyn, M. 2016. ‘Phreatomagmatic eruptions alongside the densely populated Lake Kivu northern shoreline (DRC and Rwanda): physical volcanology, timing and hazard implications’. Bulletin of Volcanology 78: 82. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-016-1074-8. URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-016-1074-8  I.F. 2.513.
  • Smets, B.Delvaux, D.,  Ross, K.A.,  Poppe, S.,  Kervyn, M.,  d'Oreye, M. & Kervyn, F. 2016. ‘The role of inherited crustal structures and magmatism in the development of rift segments: Insights from the Kivu basin, western branch of the East African Rift’. Tectonophysics 683: 62-76. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.06.022. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116302281  I.F. 2.65.
  • Syavulisembo, A.M.,  Havenith, H.-B.,  Smets, B.,  d'Oreye, N. & Marti, J. 2015. ‘Preliminary assessment for the use of VORIS as a tool for rapid lava flow simulation at Goma Volcano Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo’. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 2391-2400. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-2391-2015, 2015. URL: http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/15/2391/2015/  I.F. 2.277.
  • Smets, B.,  Kervyn, M.,  d'Oreye, N. & Kervyn, F. 2015. ‘Spatio-temporal dynamics of eruptions in a youthful extensional setting: Insights from Nyamulagira Volcano (D.R. Congo), in the western branch of the East African Rift’. Earth-Science Reviews 150: 305-328. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.08.008. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825215300325  I.F. 7.339.
  • Wauthier, C.,  Cayol, V.,  Smets, B.,  d'Oreye, N. & Kervyn, F. 2015. ‘Magma Pathways and Their Interactions Inferred from InSAR and Stress Modeling at Nyamulagira Volcano, D.R. Congo’. Remote Sensing 7: 15179-15202. DOI: 10.3390/rs71115179. URL: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/11/15179/htm  I.F. 3.036.
  • Wauthier, C.,  Smets, B. & Keir, D. 2015. ‘Diking-induced moderate-magnitude earthquakes on a youthful rift border fault: The 2002 Nyiragongo-Kalehe sequence, D.R. Congo’. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16: 4280-4291. DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006110. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GC006110/full  I.F. 2.993.