ICDP Workshop PROTEA (Klerksdorp, South Africa)

Probing the heart of an earthquake and life in the deep subsurface

WHEN 📆 16-17 October 2025 (Klerksdorp, South Africa) 

59 scientists in person and 36 additional online participants from 11 countries met up in South Africa to discuss the plans to drill though a substantial thickness of the WRG to systematically investigate the variation of host rock lithology associated with the dike-sill complex and its impact on the alteration of the lamprophyre dike. PROTEA also plans to conduct a pre-drilling seismic site survey and post-drilling seismic monitoring using up-to-date techniques. The finer structure of the dike-sill complex will elucidate its role in an extensional tectonic event such as supercontinent breakup. 

More project info: https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-continent/africa/protea-south-africa/