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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Dive reached 260 m
MoD 08.12.23
DIVE drilling reached 260 m
DIVE crossed 200 m
MoD 4.12.23
>200 m of core material
and the first snow
DIVE reached 139 m
Productive days:
139 m of core material
and other samples
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
- Dive reached 260 m
- DIVE crossed 200 m
- DIVE reached 139 m
- Ready to deal with hardrock again
- Start of Drilling 2nd Drillhole
- DIVE first sampling party held
- MoD
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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