DIVE: Vertical seismic profiling at borehole 5071_1_A

After a very successful sampling party by the science team in the Spandau core repository (GER), the logging team of the ICDP Operational Support Group is now at the DIVE bore hole 5071_1_A near Megolo where the group successfully started a seismic campaign.

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).