Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE
Project Acronym: DIVE | State: Operational Phase | Expedition ID: 5071
Preparing a full drilling of the continental lower crust into the Moho transition zone in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ) in the Southern Alps in Italy. The IVZ provides a unique and continuous set of geochemical, structural, and geophysical data on the nature of the continental lower crust and the crust-mantle transition, the construction and organisation of a deep crustal magmatic system, and the physical conditions (i.e. magma fluxes, magma/country rock rheology, density, seismic velocities). Drilling will additionally investigate heat production and distribution of heat producing elements across a continuous, finely banded sequence of lower crustal rocks, major pre-Alpine and Alpine crustal shear zones, present-day alteration processes, fluid compositions, and its relationships to the major orogenic fault structure of the Alps, the Insubric Line.
Keywords: Europe, Italy, continental crust, Moho transition zone, seismic structure, rock physics
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23 Apr 2024
DIVE: Passed 900 m
27.03.2024
DIVE: 29.02.2024
Drilling passed 770 m
DIVE: Reached 670 m
13.02.2024
Drilling reached 680 m
Successful borehole logging
10.01.2024
Logging upper 315 m
Successful after the Holiday Season
15.01.24
Drilling to 377 m
Garnets for Christmas
18.12.23
Reaching 315 m
before Christmas Break
Dive crossed 300 m
16.12.23
DIVE drilling crossed 300 m
Ready to deal with hardrock again
Productive days:
139 m of core
and other samples
Start of Drilling 2nd Drillhole
Start of Drilling 2nd Drillhole
DIVE first sampling party held
DIVE's first sampling party held in March 2023
- 23 Apr 2024
- DIVE: Passed 900 m
- DIVE passing 770 m
- DIVE: 13 Feb 2024
- Successful borehole logging
- Successful after the Holiday Season
- Garnets for Christmas
- Dive crossed 300 m
- Ready to deal with hardrock again
- Start of Drilling 2nd Drillhole
- DIVE first sampling party held
- MoD
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Project Details
- Geologic age: Permian/Pre-Permian Lower Crust
- Number of drillsites (drillholes): 1(1): 2023-Jan-01
- Drilled length: 578.5 m
- Cored length: 578.5 m
- Core recovered, length: 578.44 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length: 99.99%
- Core recovered / Drilled length: 99.99%
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- Drillsite Locations: Italy
- Coordinates: 45.98928, 8.399
- Please see map at bottom of page.
- ICDP Project ID: ICDP-2020/04
- ICDP Internal "Expedition" Identifier: 5071
- ICDP Internal Database Identifier: 4661
- ICDP Project Acronym: DIVE
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Project Timeline
Drilling
First core on deck on 6 October 2022
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
1-5 May 2017 in Bevano, Italy