Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE
Project Acronym: DIVE | State: Moratorium | 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
Cores are stored at Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Spandau, Germany
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Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
CoPIs
- Ludovic Baron – Universite de Lausanne
- Pierre Bouilhol – Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
- Donato Giovannelli – University of Naples Federico II
- Joerg Hermann – University of Bern
- Klaus Holliger – Universite de Lausanne
- Benoit Petri – Universite de Strasbourg 1
- Simona Pierdominici – GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Daniela Rubatto – University of Bern
- Marie Violay – Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne
- Shuyun Cao – China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
- Adele Manzella – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- Alba Simona Zappone – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Andrew J. Smye – Pennsylvania State University
- Antonio Langone – Universita degli Studi di Pavia
- Benjamin Malvoisin – Universite Grenoble Alpes
- Bradley R. Hacker – University of California at Santa Barbara
- Cody S. Sheik – University of Minnesota at Duluth
- Giorgio Pennacchioni – Universita degli Studi di Padova
- Lotta Purkamo – Geological Survey of Finland
- Matthew O. Schrenk – Michigan State University
- Maurizio Mazzucchelli – Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
- Michael H. Weber – GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Peter Ulmer – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Priyank Jaiswal – Oklahoma State University
- Sandra Piazolo – University of Leeds
- Silvia Pondrelli – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
- Urs Schaltegger – Universite de Geneve
- Riccardo Tribuzio – Universita degli Studi di Pavia
Project Details
- Title:
- Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE) (DIVE; IVREA)
- Proposed in:
- 2020
- Current State:
- Moratorium
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Pre-Permian lower crust
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1
- Drilled length:
- 1549.2 m (3 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 1487.58 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 1512.39 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 101.7%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 97.6%
- Expedition #
- 5071
- Location
- Southern Alps, Italy
- Coordinates
- 45.9893, 8.3990
- Status
- Moratorium
Project Location
Project Timeline
First Post Drilling Workshop
Romagnano Sesia: 10 July 2024 - 12 July 2024
Moratorium
1 July 2024 - 30 June 2026
Sampling Party 1
27 May - 1 July 2024 at BGR core repository in Berlin
Drilling Second and Third Hole
Megolo: 25 October 2023 - 27 March 2023
Drilling First Hole
First drill hole (5071_1B): 6 October 2022 - 15 December 2022
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
1-5 May 2017 in Bevano, Italy