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Active icdp Projects

...multidisciplinary projects at world-class geological sites

Active drilling projects, in various phases (drilling, pre-drilling, operational, moratorium) are displayed here. For details on these stages, refer to the ICDP Primer.

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# Acronym Project Name Project Country Current State Geologic Age Proposed Project Theme Project Duration Expedition Id Project Location Project Start Date Proposal ID
1 TADP Trans-Amazon Drilling Project Brazil Operational Phase Cenozoic 2017 Environmental Change 18 months 5066 South America, Brazil, Amazon 2018 (Nov) ICDP-2017/01
2 BVDP The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project South Africa Operational Phase Late Archean 2019 Geodynamic Processes 8 5067 Africa, South Africa, Bushveld 2020 (Oct) ICDP-2019/04
3 SWAIS 2C Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius Antarctica Operational Phase Neogene - Quaternary 2021 Environmental Change 5072 ICDP-2021/03
4 WEIHE Weihe Basin Deep Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamics P.R. China Operational Phase Cenozoic 2022 Environmental Change 5074 Weihe Basin;Weinan ICDP-2022/02
5 GOE-DEEP Gabon and Oxygenation of Earth - Drilling Early Earth Project Gabon Operational Phase Paleoproterozoic 2024 Geodynamic Processes 5075 Franceville ICDP-2024/03
6 NamCore The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet: A one million year sedimentary record from the third pole P.R. China Moratorium Quaternary 2020 Environmental Change 5073 Nam Co ICDP-2020/05
7 DIVE; IVREA Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE Italy Moratorium Permian/Pre-Permian Lower Crust 2020 Geohazards 24 month 5071 ICDP-2020/04
8 GRIND Geological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: The Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition BZ,CN,Namibia Moratorium Neoproterozoic 2018 Geodynamic Processes, Environmental Change 3 months 5064 South America, Brazil, Africa, Namibia, Asia, China 2018 (Mar) ICDP-2018/08