ICDP Country Profile
International Continental
Scientific Drilling Program 2024-05-09
Scientific Drilling Program 2024-05-09
South Africa
ICDP Membership: | since 2007 |
National Program: | (no data) |
Reponsible Institutions: | National Research Foundation South Africa (NRF) |
Panel Members: |
AOG:
EC:
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International ICDP Proposals with Participation from South Africa
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in South Africa
See also below, Subreport 'Submitted Proposals
with Drill Site(s) in South Africa'.
# | Proposal Name | Proposal ID | Individuals involved |
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1 | Colorado Plateau Coring Project 2: A continuous record of Triassic-Jurassic environmental change (CPCP-2) | ICDP-2023/04 full |
1 | |
2 | Drilling an alkaline-carbonatite complex to understand how fluid-rock interaction influences rare earth element mineralisation, groundwater and deep life (REEDRILL) | ICDP-2022/06 workshop |
3 | |
3 | Connections Among Life, geo-Dynamics and Eruptions in a Rifting Arc caldera (CALDERA) | ICDP-2022/04 workshop |
1 | |
4 | Weihe Basin Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamics | ICDP-2022/02 full |
1 | |
5 | Understanding the architecture of rare earth element mineralisation in alkaline-carbonatite complexes - Drilling the ?carbonatite critical zone? (DrillAlkCarb) | ICDP-2021/14 preliminary |
1 | |
6 | The Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): Unraveling the climate and environmental history of the world?s most populated lake | ICDP-2021/11 workshop |
1 | |
7 | Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB) Exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution | ICDP-2021/10 workshop |
3 | |
8 | Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON) | ICDP-2020/11 workshop |
1 | |
9 | Drilling Active Faults in Northern Europe (DAFNE) | ICDP-2019/08 full |
1 | |
10 | The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP) | ICDP-2019/04 full |
18 | |
11 | Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE), Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2019/03 full |
23 | |
12 | Drilling Workshop: Archean Surface Environments, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2017/14 workshop |
22 | |
13 | Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma (DISCO) | ICDP-2017/13 workshop |
2 | |
14 | Scientific Exploration of Induced SeisMicity and Stress (SEISMS) | ICDP-2016/13 workshop |
1 | |
15 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2016/08 full |
47 | |
16 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2015/10 workshop |
21 | |
17 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2015/04 full |
1 | |
18 | Probing Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India through Scientific Deep Drilling: Pilot Hole Phase | ICDP-2015/02 full |
1 | |
19 | A Bushveld Scientific Drilling Project (workshop proposal) | ICDP-2013/12 workshop |
36 | |
20 | Accelerating Neoproterozoic Research through Scientific Drilling | ICDP-2013/11 workshop |
1 | |
21 | International Workshop on Scientific Deep Drilling to Study Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India | ICDP-2011/00 workshop |
1 | |
22 | Homestake DUSEL-ICDP Observatory For In-situ Stress, Hydrology, and Life | ICDP-2010/14 workshop |
2 | |
23 | The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Using Scientific Drilling to understand the Paleoclimate Context of Human Evolution | ICDP-2010/04 full |
1 | |
24 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) | ICDP-2009/11 workshop |
1 | |
25 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2009/01 full |
28 | |
26 | Tectonics and Ecosystems on the Early Earth | ICDP-2008/07 workshop |
5 | |
27 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2008/02 full |
2 | |
28 | Full Proposal for Drilling - Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP) | ICDP-2006/01 full |
1 | |
29 | Drilling active faults in South African mines - DAFSAM | ICDP-2005/14 full |
4 | |
30 | Deep Drilling in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Virginia, USA | ICDP-2004/06 full |
1 | |
31 | Anatomy of an Impact Basin. Scientific Drilling of the Sudbury Structure, Ontario, Canada. | ICDP-2003/07 workshop |
1 | |
32 | Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa | ICDP-2002/08 full |
1 | |
33 | Drilling Active Fault Zones in Deep Gold Mines of South Africa. | ICDP-2002/07 workshop |
1 | |
34 | Workshop in Preparation of a Full Proposal for Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa. | ICDP-2001/04 workshop |
1 | |
35 | Scientific Drilling at the KT-age Chicxulub Crater: Probing the Link between Impact and Global Change. | ICDP-1996/08 preliminary |
4 | |
35 Proposals | International ICDP Proposals with Participation from South Africa | Total: | 240 persons |
Training Course Participants from South Africa:
Participants comprised students, scientists at all career stages, technical staff.
Date | Location | Participants from South Africa |
# | |
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2022 | in Germany | 4 | 1 | |
2018 | in Germany | 2 | 2 | |
2018 | in Germany | 2 | 3 | |
2017 | in Germany | 0 | 4 | |
2016 | in Germany | 1 | 5 | |
2015 | in Germany | 1 | 6 | |
2015 | in North Macedonia | 0 | 7 | |
2014 | in New Zealand | 0 | 8 | |
2012 | in U.S.A. | 1 | 9 | |
2011 | in Germany | 2 | 10 | |
2010 | in Germany | 0 | 11 | |
2009 | in Sweden | 0 | 12 | |
2008 | in Germany | 0 | 13 | |
2007 | in Germany | 1 | 14 | |
2006 | in Germany | 0 | 15 | |
2004 | in Ghana | 0 | 16 | |
2003 | in Japan | 0 | 17 | |
2001 | in Mexico | 0 | 18 | |
2001 | in P.R. China | 0 | 19 | |
1999 | in U.S.A. | 0 | 20 | |
1998 | in Germany | 0 | 21 | |
South Africa | Total Number of Training Course Participants: | 14 persons |
Submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in South Africa:
Only proposals approved by the ICDP panels are shown.
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in South Africa
# | Proposal Name | Proposal
ID (Type) |
Individuals involved |
|
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1 | Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE), Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2019/03 (full) |
23 | |
2 | The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP) | ICDP-2019/04 (full) |
18 | |
3 | Drilling Workshop: Archean Surface Environments, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2017/14 (workshop) |
22 | |
4 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2016/08 (full) |
47 | |
5 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2015/10 (workshop) |
21 | |
6 | A Bushveld Scientific Drilling Project (workshop proposal) | ICDP-2013/12 (workshop) |
36 | |
7 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2009/01 (full) |
28 | |
8 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2008/02 (full) |
2 | |
9 | Tectonics and Ecosystems on the Early Earth | ICDP-2008/07 (workshop) |
5 | |
10 | Drilling active faults in South African mines - DAFSAM | ICDP-2005/14 (full) |
4 | |
11 | Drilling Active Fault Zones in Deep Gold Mines of South Africa. | ICDP-2002/07 (workshop) |
1 | |
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11 submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in South Africa | Persons involved: | 207 scientists |