DIVE: Congratulations!

Congratulations to the DIVE team! Together the science and drilling crews have done a great job and have reached their final depth of 909.5 m. The on-site operations now focus on preparing the borehole logging activities in the next weeks.

The goal of the DIVE project is a full drilling of the continental lower crust into the Moho transition zone in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ) in the Southern Alps (Italy) to provide a unique and continuous set of geochemical, structural, and geophysical data on the nature of the continental lower crust and the crust-mantle transition and any relationships to the major orogenic fault structure of the Alps, the Insubric Line. End of October the team started drilling the second borehole near Megolo (5071_1_A). For more information on the project please see the ICDP DIVE project website and the Daily News or the projects own website (external).